Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columns were shot and blasted, careening over cars, blocking the columns. I saw one double column over a mile long-and I did not discover the end of it-in which only a few vehicles had not been burned or smashed. Volkswagen, sedans, ack-ack trucks, ammunition carriers, 47-mm. guns and hundreds of bicycles were irretrievably snarled...
...column had run into some German heavies. Before the tank commanders could get under cover, the captain of the unit had the top of his head taken off, at turret line. At that point the lieutenant had taken over. He had fired four rounds from his 37-mm. gun against a German heavy's hide. "They bounced off just like tennis balls," he said, "and we got to hell out of there." He gazed at his hand some more, and said again: "They bounced off, sons of bitches, just bounced...
...Monthly production rate of torpedoes has been stepped up 40-fold, depth charges 60-fold. The Navy has added to its arsenal more than 125,000 20-mm. and 40-mm. ack-ack guns-and one billion rounds of ammunition for them alone...
Microfilm, used for Vmail, is increasingly popular in research libraries-thus far chiefly for filing newspapers. Photographed on 35-mm. film, ten complete issues of the New York Times (averaging 800 pages) can be recorded on a single 100-ft. reel. Placed in a reading machine operated by hand crank, the film is projected on a screen, enlarged to 18 in. by 18 in. Heads of university presses, tired of spending $1,000 to $4,000 to publish scholarly books which may never be read by more than a hundred or so other scholars, are talking of publishing more & more...
Salvos of Mercy. The hillside took an awful going-over that day & night. There were many more wounded. U.S. shells also began to fall plunk in the battalion's lines. But the big 155-mm. projectiles did not explode. They were salvos of mercy: smoke shells stripped of powder, cotton-packed with sulfas, plasma, morphine...