Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...negative and at least one positive print go automatically into MARCH OF TIME's huge film library. But after the necessary revision, about half the subjects are chosen by the Editors for inclusion in the rapidly growing MARCH OF TIME Forum Edition 16 mm. series. This series is designed to fill a need among study and discussion groups for films to be used as background for open forums on topics ranging from "Music in America" to "Airways of the Future," from "New England" to "India...
Observers wondered whether the Army was any better set to fight a cold war than it had been before. Movement was slow. Clothing, equipment, chutes and arms made 300-lb. sloths of average-sized men. The heaviest artillery dropped was 75-mm. cannon, and it was set up too slowly by numbed fingers. Firepower would have to be heavier, said the experts, and it would have to be parachuted down in one piece...
...After a few drinks, a soldier at Fort Sill, Okla. climbed into a 21-ton, self-propelled 155-mm. howitzer and, although he had never operated one before, drove it five miles into the town of Lawton (pop. 20,000), crashed into three autos, toured the business section, then rumbled on back to the fort-and into the guardhouse...
...experiment: his method, although not startlingly new, proves that a virus can be produced rapidly and cheaply. He took brain tissue from polio-infected mice, chopped it up, put it in an alcohol solution, then precipitated the virus by spinning it in an ordinary laboratory centrifuge. He worked with MM (mouse-monkey) virus, which does not affect human beings; but his method, he believes, can be used to isolate viruses that attack humans. When that is done, researchers can begin work on a vaccine...
Greek soldiers, sitting in ditches, stared incredulously at the bus and its occupants. The commissioners stared back. They saw and heard plenty to indicate that rebel leader Markos Vafiades was getting help from "abroad." Artillery officers said that Greece had never had a 65-mm. gun, such as the rebels were using. Rebel prisoners admitted that they had moved freely back & forth across the Albanian frontier. Greek Spitfire pilots said they saw a column of trucks moving toward the border from the Albanian town of Leskovik. But the "Greek Situation" would not be resolved by U.N. commissions...