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BreakThrough. When the way was prepared, 20-ton break-through tanks, each carrying eight to 16 men, charged in, regardless of losses two to a squadron, two squadrons to a battery, three batteries to a section, three sections to a 36 tank regiment, plus a reserve echelon. Where deep rivers or canals interposed, the bombing planes covered the break-through tanks while, according to other stories, water tight 30-ton amphibians wallowed in, to let bridges be built across their steel backs for the rest. Other tanks apparently carried pontoons for crossing water. Across tank asparagus, pits, ravines, special bridging...
...Biggest air attack so far came last week. Late one rainy afternoon, a British naval squadron ran across two or three German vessels "southwest of Norway." They gave pursuit, and chased the German ships all night. Next day a force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast...
...banged, Cunningham sped out in front of the quartet. By the first quarter they were dogging each other in Indian file. At the half they spread in echelon, Cunningham in the lead. A slow third quarter saw Venzke trailing and by the time the gun rang out for the last lap it looked as if the long office hours in a Manhattan accounting firm were going to put Bonthron out of the race. Then things began to happen. Sailing down the home stretch with his mincing gait, Jack Lovelock stepped a full eight yards out in front of Cunningham, whose...
...true in the rarefied upper realms of business as anywhere else. The younger man who manages to attain to some showy second or third rank among financiers and businessmen is so remarkable that the cheer leaders of low literature . . . and the sob sisters move down upon his abode in echelon formation. ... In the arts the matter is notorious. There are young geniuses and child prodigies, who are admired like the aardvark and the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, but all the solid and enduring work is done by men who have lived long enough to have mastered their metier and life itself...
...Physical Colloquium. "Line Structure and Shift with an Echelon Spectroscope," by Professor Norton Kent and "Vacuum Tube Spectra in the Magnetic Field," by Professor Norton Kent and Mr. R. M. Frye 1G., in Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...