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This mine will cripple the heaviest tank, but will not explode when a foot soldier walks over...
After two days in port, the Juneau went on the prowl again. I was aboard when she left the harbor, riding low in the water from the heaviest load of ammunition she had ever carried. As we put off, a 40-man U.S. Marine guard in knife-edge khaki stood at ramrod attention as the Juneau's band blared a salute. Then, as the sun slowly set into purple clouds and dark green mountains, the ship seemed to relax. A cool evening breeze played across her bow and she headed back for "The Little Slot...
...Korea this week, scared the stock market into its biggest drop in nearly four years. When the New York Stock Exchange opened, the day after the Korean fighting started, a huge wave of panicky selling began. By day's end, trading totaled 3,910,000 shares, the heaviest since May 21, 1940, when Hitler's Panzer divisions were sweeping through northern France. The selling sent the Dow-Jones industrial average tumbling 10.41 points, the biggest single day's break since the September crash...
...German army experience was matched in other countries where the civilian population was under fire. Even the heaviest bombings in the Battle of Britain had negligible effects on the mental health of civilians: there was nowhere for them to escape to, and no hope of compensation. Significantly, children evacuated to "safe" areas posed greater mental problems than those who stayed under the full force of the blitz...
Weatherman Christie deprecated the role of Howell's silver iodide spray in the downpour by pointing out that light rain had started in the test area before the experiment began, and that the heaviest rainfall had been to the south--not to the north, where the chemical clouds had drifted...