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Some 200 hand-picked Allied officers (and a Yugoslav) watched intently one day last week on Salisbury Plain as Britain demonstrated her prize new .280-cal. rifle. More than simple curiosity was involved: this is the weapon with which Britain hopes to equip not only her own infantrymen (who have been using the bolt-action, single-shot .303-cal. Lee-Enfield since the South African War), but all the North Atlantic Treaty nations. Disagreement over it caused a hitch at the recent small-arms conference in Washington, where Britain's Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell argued...
...troops smartly presented arms on the dock one day last week as the Canadian freighter Beaver-brae nosed into Antwerp's harbor. In the ship were the last of 170 artillery pieces, 23,000 machine guns and rifles, and 2,500 tons of ammunition shipped from Montreal to equip a Belgian infantry division...
What all this meant was that after eight months of fighting in Korea the Army still had not been able to organize its supplies efficiently enough to equip its new soldiers. In Washington, Major General Herman Feldman, quartermaster general, had some good explanations for the drive. Though the Army was paying a good deal more for goods than the Government had sold them for, Feldman said that it was still paying a good deal less than the same goods would cost new now. Even so, the spectacle of the U.S. paying twice for the same goods made many a citizen...
...Berlin's Evangelical cathedral, in the Soviet sector. As the cold war grew hotter, many West Berlin members were afraid to go there, so Bartel borrowed St. Matthew's, in the U.S. sector, to hold Sunday afternoon services. Before he retires, he hopes to find and equip a church which the deaf-mute worshipers of West Berlin can call their...
...commercial market for helicopters as executive transports, crop-dusters, mail-carriers, etc., but lost money. At $23,500 a ship, there were not enough buyers. The company now has a $75 million military backlog, is developing the tandem-rotored experimental XHSL-i helicopter. The Navy wants to equip it with radar, use it to hunt submarines...