Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Methylcellulose, Dr. Bargen found, is a bulking substance which can be taken handily in tablet form. In lukewarm water or in the digestive tract it forms a suspension of "innumerable tiny translucent gelatinous particles 0.5 mm. or less in diameter." It goes through most of the digestive tract unchanged, but loses water and turns to a bulky jelly about the time it reaches the colon. Dr. Bargen checked on its progress at regular intervals-through abdominal openings in patients who had had intestinal operations...
...underwater ear which helped break the Nazis' almost-decisive U-boat campaign; missiles, such as the V-i which "might well have stopped the [Normandy] invasion"; rocket-firing bazookas which can stop tanks; recoilless guns which can be carried by two men and have the power of 75-mm. howitzers...
...tickets were on top of a pile of old bank statements. 33 MM 4, 33 MM5. Vag had waited more than two hours to get them. Something rattled when he closed the drawer again, and Vag remembered the bottle. He had bought that too. He gingerly reopened the drawer, withdrew the bottle from behind the pile of checks. The contents smelled familiar and unpleasant and Vag felt the first tentative swallow catch in his throat...
Later at a firing-range observation post he watched heavily burdened paratroopers -850 in all-come tumbling out of the sky. Tons of ammunition and equipment hit the ground as they assembled and opened fire. In the neatest trick of the day, four C-82s dropped four huge 105 mm. howitzers and four towing jeeps. All but one gun floated safely down under billowing, 100 ft. cargo chutes, and the cannon were firing within twelve minutes after delivery...
...Thanksgiving? U.S. excess stocks were plentiful, if badly out of balance. The U.S. had plenty of antiaircraft guns (many of them without fire-control equipment or prime movers). It had thousands of 81-mm. mortars, a good many excess tanks (needing guns and radios before shipment), 155-mm. howitzers, scout cars, machine guns and military radios. In all, some $450 million worth of excess materiel was scheduled for Western Europe's armies. Only the cost of rehabilitation-estimated at $77 million-would be charged...