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...rifle range they burrowed into the cold Hoosier earth, tried out the Army's Garand. They passed the ammunition for 105-mm. howitzers. They dug slit trenches, staggered across swaying bridges of wire and planks (the less nimble tumbled six feet down into muddy water), paddled assault boats over mined, smoke-screened Driftwood River, grappled hand-to-neck while instructors barked: "Be ruthless-kill, maim, gouge his eyes, stick your fingers up his nostrils, give him a knee in the kidneys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Guts & Sweat | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...rearrangement of ship-motor parts cut from large steel sheets gets 25% more pieces from each sheet, saves 110,000 lb. of steel. By better arrangement of other parts cut from steel sheets he saves another 537,000 lb. of steel. Total savings: enough to make 80,000 Garand rifles. His award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inside Know-How | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...design of his own B-25 bomber had been "frozen," said Kindelberger, 15,000 blueprints were changed, 4,000 parts were completely redesigned. Snapped he: "Talk about freezing plane designs is as silly as freezing the design of a flintlock rifle when the enemy is turning out a Garand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Dutch v. Charlie | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...factories monthly . . . tank production is ahead of schedule, with one company alone turning out an entire trainload daily. . . ." He said that the U.S. now has six times as many soldiers on the world's battlefronts as General Pershing had in 1918 after ten months of war,* that enough Garand rifles are on hand to equip every man who needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rayburn Ropes a Steer | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...Fort Meade private (Frederick Gaither) came on the air with his partner, a Garand rifle named "Stinky," and discussed its make-up and accomplishments with Sportscaster Bill Stern. This was an easygoing, informative skit, especially for anyone unaware that U.S. soldiers now carry armor-piercing rifle ammunition to drill through the belly of enemy tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Calling All Fronts | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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