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...radio). Excellent medium and light tanks (but no such heavy tanks as the Germans' mighty 80-tonners) rumbled up against 3 7 mm. anti-tank guns (which can pierce 2-inch armor at 1,500 yards) and smokepots (devised to blind tank crews in grey, saccharine fog). Some of the tanks had names. Defense forces using smokepots and modernized French 75-mm. field guns captured Gypsy Rose Lee, Diamond Lil, Galloping Ghost, Suicide Kid in one skirmish. Along with a completely mechanized cavalry brigade, there was still horse cavalry. But even the horses were modernized. There were trucks...
Outside of the story itself, the picture is apt to irritate any one who has been to Honolulu, because of the heavy fog and the overcoats that appear in one scene of the picture. Another small point: although Chan is meant to be Chinese, his bathrobe is a Japanese kimono. You can figure that...
...years, St. Louis has choked in "smog"-mixture of fog and smoke belched out by furnaces burning southern Illinois soft coal (TIME, March 4). To clear the air, the city recently passed an ordinance requiring smokeless fuel or the installation of equipment to burn soft coal smokelessly. Mining towns of south ern Illinois now vow they will boycott St. Louis merchants (who sell Illinois coal miners more than $50,000,000 worth of products a year...
...middle of a fight, no good fighter admits he is being hurt. Undoubtedly there was some minimizing of damage in British statements. Undoubtedly, too, the North Sea, with its curtains of fog and blankets of cloud, is not a good place for Air Power to prove itself better than Sea Power. But the fact that the British risked their heavy ships within gunshot of Stavanger gave strong evidence of Allied confidence after a week of testing against Marshal Göring's sky terror. The safe landing in Norway of most of three divisions of Allied land forces added...
...flash of heliograph signals in the North Sea haze and the speaking of great naval guns, the world has lately read a certain statement about the British Empire. That statement is scarcely final in the fog of war, but it gives point to such books as Adams' and Muggeridge...