Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends over there, an immense mass of munitions of all kinds: cannon, rifles, machine guns, cartridges and shells; all safely landed without the loss of a gun or a round. . . ." (British authorities revealed last week that 600,000 badly needed Springfield rifles, 500 field pieces [mostly 75 mm.] and large quantities of ammunition, bought in June from the U. S. Government's surplus World War I stocks, were not only safely landed in Britain but distributed, ready for action...
...good a show for war machines. The President saw five anti-aircraft guns, about 40 World War I 155 mm. howitzers mounted on more modern carriages, a larger number of 75 mm. guns, a few more than a hundred aircraft. There were no automatic rifles in sight, nor a single anti-tank gun. They were not needed. There were no tanks. The President asked Major General Clifford Powell about the equipment of the 44th Division. The Major General replied : "It is pretty good, what there is of it. But we are using broomsticks for machine guns and rain pipes...
...President's first look at his newest (tenth) grandchild, two-month-old Haven Roosevelt (who declined to smile for Father John and Grandfather Franklin). At Boston Navy Yard Mr. Roosevelt saw eight destroyers under construction. At the Watertown Arsenal there was the Army's new 90-mm. antiaircraft gun. He saw the torpedo station, Navy Training Station and War College at Newport, R. I., the new naval air base at Quonset Point, submarines at New London. Conn. All these he judged to be proof that U. S. Defense was well along, would be still further along by late...
...MM. Daladier, Mandel, Campinchi and Delbos had fled from Bordeaux on June 20 on the steamer Massilia, a few days before armistice agreements were concluded with Germany and Italy. Reaching Casablanca, they were held on their ship by Moroccan authorities acting on orders from Bordeaux, to await the Petain Government's decision. In Marseille last week to stand trial, sagging-jawed Daladier and his fellow scapegoats learned that they were the principal victims of a new Government decree withdrawing citizenship and confiscating the property of all citizens who left French territory between May 10 and June 30 without...
...Both Messrs. Taft and Gannett showed campaign movies, but found few takers for such 16 mm. cinema. Of the ten candidates, only Mr. Gannett, a Dry who will not accept beer advertising in his 17 newspapers, formally served free liquor to callers. Only Mr. Gannett hung the hotel lobby and the uncomplaining streets with 15-foot portraits of himself, in color...