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Without infantry, armies cannot win wars; without rifles, infantry cannot fight. The U. S. Army therefore thought hard and long before deciding in 1936 to junk its rugged, battle-tried Springfield rifle and adopt a new, rapid-fire, semi-automatic called the Garand (for Inventor John C. Garand, a civilian who works for the War Department). After nearly five years, the Army last week was still using mostly Springfield rifles, and thinking about Garands. Official excuse for this situation: that the Garand has not yet been supplied to the Army because it is still going through a normal process...
Congressmen got a jolt last month from Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. He told them that he had concocted a liquid oxygen-carbon explosive - and named it "Glmite" - similar to the famed German bombs which in Barcelona are supposed to have killed people a quarter-mile away (TIME, March 25). Army and Navy men remained skeptical, but last week both Army and Navy came around; agreed to formulate in writing terms for a scientific test to prove conclusively the effectiveness of Glmite, promised to pay the costs of the experiment...
...Army's willingness to undertake this trial followed the Congressional hearing and an unofficial test which Inventor Barlow staged last fortnight in one corner of the well-guarded grounds of the Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant. His guests were newsmen, a few Congressmen and curious Army and Navy officials. He proceeded to show them how safe Glmite was by setting fire to it, shooting a 30/30 bullet through it, firing charges of it from a trench mortar against a steel plate, lob bing a shellful in the direction of his nervous audience - who ducked behind a sandbag barricade. None...
...eight-ounce charge touched off from a safe distance with an electric detonator shattered a 40-foot telephone pole, blew chunks of kindling 150 feet into the air. When Inventor Barlow put five pounds in a dugout, set it off, earth and sand roared up to the sky, and the "whip-back" of air rushing into the vacuum created by the heat of the blast sucked out the sides of a shack 25 feet away. The force of the explosion was felt 1,000 feet away. The new test will show Army and Navy men whether a bigger charge...
...passed by Congress on April 10, 1790 and signed by President George Washington-set up a three-man patent board: the Secretaries of War and State and the Attorney General. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson was also keeper of records. His staff was a part-time clerk. An inventor himself (a mold board for plows, revolving chair, combination stool and walking stick), Jefferson read every application that came in. First patent went to one Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for "making pot and pearl ashes." In those days a patent cost about $4. (Now it is $60 plus legal fees.) John...