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Recent camouflage techniques employ the use of natural vegetation in the combat zones. The experimenters from the staffs of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard forest, Biological Laboratories, and Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research have compiled figures on the "lasting period of cut foliage." Heretofore, the time in which this camouflage material would wilt in the field was unknown by any authorities...
Last week the gadget came off the secret list. It is the Piat (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) and it fires a 2.75-lb. bomb which explodes on impact with a violence sufficient to penetrate four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat...
...seasoned Anti-Saloon League and the potent Methodist Board of Temperance, prefers to work quietly and without publicity in a campaign to dry up individual counties through local-option laws and gradually elect Congressmen favorable to their cause. Many of the nation's 100-odd dry organizations energetically employ both techniques...
Complex Foe. Most of the Partisans today fight with captured rifles, hand grenades, machine guns. The larger units employ German-made artillery and tanks. Scarce items-medicines, winter clothes, shoes-are supplied by Red Army planes and parachutes. An air shuttle service flies doctors and Army officers into guerrilla territory, flies the wounded out. The bigger "armies" operate their own bakeries, hospitals, community bathhouses. Many mimeograph and distribute their own newspapers...
...Many Jobs? Albert Lea's planners took as their objective "a [postwar] job paying a living wage for every worker who wanted one." The eleven biggest industries in the town (meat packing, machinery, etc.) were asked to write down their employment and business volume for 1940 as against 1943, and their hopes for the first year of peace. The eleven, encouraged by a 125% war expansion, figured they could employ 60% more people after the war than in 1940. Hearing this, the city's 442 other employers upped their own payroll estimates...