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Starting on Christmas Eve, Finland's gulf seaport of Viipuri, ten miles behind the Mannerheim Line, was treated to a demonstration more melodramatic than lethal: long-range shelling by a battery of Russian "Little Berthas" about 25 miles away. Duds proved the guns to be 8-inchers, firing presumably at a main railroad supply line to the Mannerheim positions, but hitting the city and its suburbs indiscriminately. One shell knocked a top corner off evacuated Viipuri's one hotel, the Knut Posse*, in which numerous foreign correspondents were huddled...
...nomenclature of World War II, few names are more widely known now than Messerschmitt. It stands for lethal speed in the air by Nazi pursuit ships. Willy Messerschmitt,* 41, is a sharp-nosed, sandy-haired citizen of the placid, medieval town of Augsburg, Germany. He started flying when he was 15, designed his first plane in 1916, became chief engineer of Bayerische Flugzengwerke at Augsburg in 1927, specializing in speed. On April 26 this year, one of his ships with a 1,660-h.p. Daimler-Benz motor set up an absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly...
...long as he kept the nature of his lethal ray secret, it was hard for skeptical scientists to prove that Mr. Longoria was talking big through his hat. But last week he laid himself wide open by announcing: "The ray lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray." This was a bit too specific. Professor Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's famed radiation authority, stated that there are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the Xray...
...long, long trail awinding" at night in dimly blue-lit trains, learning infantry drill and Spanish, shaking down into an argumentative army in which every officer was "comrade." They had their own language: a man "organized himself" a new rifle, a chocolate bar, a butt; the lethal cigarillos finos they were issued were known as "anti-tanks...
...Foley fumed loudly & bitterly at Republican Dewey for not guarding his witnesses sooner, so that innocent citizens who resemble them should not be erased by mistake. Furious in turn, Republican Dewey got guards for scores of other prospective Lepke witnesses, asked the city to post $25,000 reward for lethal Gangster Lepke, dead or alive, flooded the nation with Get-Lepke circulars...