Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North Carolina and Washington alone will greatly increase the Fleet's fire power. The whole Fleet now has only 24 16-in. guns (eight each on the West Virginia, Maryland, Colorado). Each of the new class has nine. What is more, the new guns have longer range, throw a heavier shell (2,300 lb., instead of the 2,100). Net result: the 18 big guns on North Carolina and Washington will almost double the 16-in. broadside power of the Fleet, tremendously enhance its chances to crush an enemy line...
Host and demonstrator at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground was hard, white-haired, tank-wise Colonel John K. Christmas.* The day was cold and raw; the red Maryland clay was muddy underfoot. Colonel Christmas said that he would let the model speak for itself. Then he turned toward the tank, sulking 400 yards away on a slight rise, and waved his right arm. There was dead quiet for perhaps ten seconds. Then M3 turned loose a horizontal stream of red death, directed towards a silhouette target 900 yards away. From the muzzles of four .30-caliber machine guns spurted bright...
...Rodgers, longtime head of the American Trucking Associations, Inc., trade organization and lobby for the U.S. trucking business. In its fight for higher maximum loads the association is having a good year: since Jan. 1 four other States (Georgia, Tennessee, Indiana, North Dakota) have upped the limits. Four others (Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, South Dakota) have new laws in the legislative works. But the trucking industry still is hampered by State-to-State differences in maximum loads, maximum sizes, license fees and port-of-entry restrictions. Of all the interstate trade barriers condemned last week by TNEC (see above), trucking...
...incident came about when Lucian V. Alexis, Jr. '42, of New Orleans and Adams House, went on a southern trip with the lacrosse team. Alexis played in a game against the University of Maryland, but according to members of the lacrosse squad, the authorities at Annapolis refused to allow their team to play against a squad which contained a Negro...
...third game, which was with Navy, was the Maryland game in reverse. Still showing the effects of the last half of the Maryland game, the team let the midshipment score six goals in the first period and four in the second. In the last half the stickmen tightened up, however, and the final score...