Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, unsightly stumps after logging. The lumberjacks, tough as they are, will not cut through the thick base of a Douglas fir when by notching the tree a few feet higher they can save a foot or two in diameter. But with the power saw (which weighs about 130 Ib.) it is easier to cut at the base than higher up. The lumber saved will amount to millions of board feet a year. The power saw not only brings the tree down, it also does the bucker's work, slicing up timber like so much sausage. Only human timber...
...Army's new carbine will be short enough (36 in.), light enough (about 5 Ib.) to replace the famous but erratic .45 pistol as a small arm for officers and noncoms. It will also give infantrymen, paratroopers, cavalrymen, tankers, machine gunners an effective supplementary weapon. Designed for rapid fire (either semiautomatic, like the Garand rifle, or full automatic, like a machine gun), it will enormously increase the amount of lead the U.S. Army can spit at its enemies...
...against the ambitious Japanese. Close behind an initial production block of 100 rifles come 500 more this week, with still larger outputs of 1,000 to 2,000 to come. Also in parts production at Universal, soon due for the first assembly: Inventor Johnson's light (12½ Ib.), shoulder-fired machine gun, which The Netherlands East Indies has also ordered in quantity...
...found the chore a squeezing torture, could stand it for only a few minutes at a time. Along came 19-year-old Johnny Giovenco ("Johnny Gee" for short), a Brooklyn mechanic who usually had a hard time getting a job because he was only four feet high, weighed 88 Ib. He quickly got an inside job with Brewster. After New York newspapers printed his picture, little men swarmed to the Brewster plant. Last week three more were hired...
...Henderson meanwhile had aroused a far more dangerous foe than Detroit. This was King Cotton, whose price, thanks to the Fulmer Cotton Loan (85 %-of-parity) Act, has led the whole commodity list skywards in recent weeks. OPACS is formally in favor of parity prices for cotton (16.12? a Ib.). But after the price crossed 15? last week, the sympathetic rise in cotton textile and cottonseed oil prices drew OPACS's fire...