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...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...
Supplies of opium and quinine are shrinking so rapidly that the Government has stored three years' supply of each in the vaults of the Treasury Building in Washington. Opium is perhaps the most important drug used by doctors. Formerly, the U.S. imported over 150,000 Ib. of opium a year from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany; opium poppies are not commercially grown at all in the U.S. Quinine, a specific for malaria, comes from the bark of cinchona trees in the Dutch East Indies; no substitute is quite so good. Other dwindling drugs: ^ Belladonna, made from the deadly nightshade, was formerly...
...difficult drugs to manufacture: foxglove leaves, which contain the drug, begin to deteriorate as soon as they are separated from the plant, must be dried at once at high temperatures, then powdered. There are foxglove farms in about ten places in the northern U.S., capable of producing 1,000 Ib. an acre...