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Contented by all this is a 5 ft. 4 in., 291 Ib. Negro vocalist named Jimmy Rushing, who last week was shouting Mister Five By Five with Count Basic's band at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Jimmy Rushing knew who the U.S. public was singing about. It was singing about Jimmy Rushing...
Chief of Auto Ordnance food research is John Cornelius Donnelly, who has been dry-pressing since 1934, when he first applied the principle to coffee, freezing roasted beans while he squeezed them at 1,500-2,000 Ib. per sq. in. to produce a product that yields almost double the number of cups per pound. ("The freezing," says Engineer Donnelly, "functions as an anesthetic to avoid damage to the tissues, fats and cells during the squeeze.") He reports reductions in volume (over and above dehydration reductions) of 90% for sauerkraut, 80% for cabbage, 75% for potatoes, 65% for onions, beets...
Land mines are generally divided into two classes: anti-tank and antipersonnel. The German IP2 is a typical anti-tank mine, disc-shaped, 10½ in. in diameter, 2¼ in. thick, weight 9 Ib. (5 Ib. TNT, 4 Ib. steel casing, detonator, etc.). Anti-tank mines are buried in the ground at strategic points through which approaching enemy tanks must pass. The number used may run into astronomical figures: a field 400 by 750 yards containing mines placed 1½ yards apart requires 5,000 mines. As many as 25,000 Russian mines have been...
...resulting explosion, even of a 19-lb. German Teller mine which contains 11 Ib. of TNT, is no more than enough to blow the tread off a tank, or sometimes to blast a hole in its thin-skinned belly. But stalled tanks are vulnerable targets...
Foodman Wickard hastily explained that there was no real shortage of these foods: supplies are the biggest ever. Big hitch is that the Army, Navy and Lend-Lease will gobble up about half 1943's production, leave only 33 Ib. for every U.S. citizen against a pre-war consumption of 46 Ib. The only choice was rationing, under a point system to be started when new ration books are ready in February...