Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carolina and Washington alone will greatly increase the Fleet's fire power. The whole Fleet now has only 24 16-in. guns (eight each on the West Virginia, Maryland, Colorado). Each of the new class has nine. What is more, the new guns have longer range, throw a heavier shell (2,300 lb., instead of the 2,100). Net result: the 18 big guns on North Carolina and Washington will almost double the 16-in. broadside power of the Fleet, tremendously enhance its chances to crush an enemy line...
Last week some 200 officers, manufacturers, newsmen saw the Army's newest tank in action. It was an M3: a 25-ton armored hulk, abristle with four machine guns and two cannon, seven tons heavier than the few medium tanks already in service. The Army last week had only this one model, but within two or three months medium tanks should begin to roll from three new tank factories (Chrysler, American Locomotive, Baldwin Locomotive...
...students increased. The course had been shortened from a year to seven and a half months. Graduated cadets necessarily went out to their units with less training than their predecessors had before the great expansion started. And the first 750 flying hours, when heady youngsters went into faster and heavier ships, were always the hardest, resulted in three times more accidents than the next 1,250 hours. Said General Dargue: "As long as the human element is the human element there will be accidents. When an emergency makes it necessary to train men rapidly, the experience curve will temporarily drop...
...noon last Tuesday Franklin Roosevelt became the first man in U. S. history to serve as President for more than eight years. His head still heavy with a cold, his natural buoyancy overlaid with the gravity of his ever heavier responsibility, he told reporters that the crisis today was greater in some ways than the crisis of 1933. His voice was low and tired...
...President was enormously busy, conferring, planning, driving his vast crew to later hours, harder tasks, heavier responsibilities. He froze Bulgarian credits, signed a bill easing inequities of the 1940 excess-profits-tax law, as early Treasury tax returns showed 58% larger than 1939's; signed a bill providing $375,000,000 to continue WPA until July 1, subjected 16 more critical war materials to export license control; slashed by 55% the Army Engineers' $366,808,925 recommendations for 619 juicy rivers-&-harbors pork-barrel projects. Twice at press conferences he endeavored to quiet fears that labor strikes were...