Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke in on Variety as an 18-year-old collegian. Today, like all the muggs, he lives partly in a nostalgic past, haunted by Silverman's wise-guy gentleness, his scoops, his Hispano-Suizas. Variety labors to be in the know about the future of television and 16-mm.-film theaters, so that if radio or the movies go the way of vaudeville, it will still be the journalistic handmaiden of entertainment...
...Raising $1,000,000 to produce religious shorts and documentaries (chiefly 16-mm. for church and school...
...your July 23 issue you say a Fort Benning corporal "picked up a 57-mm. cannon . . . aimed it as casually as a shotgun . . . demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away." Secret of the kickless cannon: a backward powder blast through the breach-"a fiery column 12 to 15 ft. long, about 4 ft. in diameter...
...which will fire any type of shell-including phosphorous-has the accuracy of an M-1 Garand rifle, a maximum range of 2½ miles. A heavier (110-lb.) kickless gun also in service is the 75 mm., which is fired from a tripod no heavier than a machine-gun mount and has a range of more than four miles. The Army's most mobile artillery weapon was formerly the 75-mm. pack howitzer, weighing about...
...They told us that a medium tank cost $90,000; an 81-mm. trench mortar $800; a 60-mm. trench mortar cost $500, and we made the appropriation on that basis." Mr. Engel said he learned later that a medium tank "actually cost" $60,000; an 81-mm. mortar less than $600; a 60-mm. mortar less than...