Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infantry work. But hauling troops by air is no new story to the Army, which has moved outfits before, bag & baggage, just to save time. Until the Army gets more transports, it will have to content itself with moving small outfits, learning how to stow bulky items like 37-mm. anti-tank guns (weight: 950 Ib.) in the planes...
...from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox) for the organization of the first full divisions in Marine Corps history, two outfits especially designed for swift thrusts into troubled areas. They are "triangular," like the Army's streamlined divisions: three regiments of heavily armed infantry, three battalions of 75-mm. pack howitzers, one of 1555, and 72 tanks...
...Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak had not been honored by the immigration police of Brother-in-Law Serrano Suñer's Ministry of Government. "It is an affair of honor!" the Colonel reportedly told the Generalissimo, "I gave my word of honor that they should pass!" Instead, MM. Pierlot and Spaak were in jail in Spain last week, at Axis request...
...were nearly finished. Three a day should be trundling off the production line for the U. S. Army and Navy within three months, five a day by next spring (plus additional planes for Great Britain). But Larry Bell last week had on hand only one of the 37-mm. cannon which fire through the Airacobra's nose. He had only one propeller designed for the cannon (which projects through a hole in the propeller hub). Worst of all he had only three liquid-cooled, in-line Allison engines...
Drop a dime in a Soundies (the word apparently has no singular form) and you see a three-minute film, with musical accompaniment, projected on the box's 24-by-18-inch plastic screen. The $695 box is designed to hold 1,000 ft. of 16-mm. film, made for Mills by James Roosevelt's Globe Productions in Hollywood. There is no direct corporate connection between Mills and Globe. But the film will be leased to box owners, at $17.50 per reel for the first week, less later, by a projected Soundies Distributing Corp. of America...