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...board assumed that "troops have landed through heavy surf sufficient to break completely over men and equipment, and immediately engage in combat on a sandy beach." Results: both Garands failed to operate as semi-automatic rifles (i.e., reload automatically after each round). One failed completely and the firer had to hammer the bolt with a mallet; "the other operated by hand with extreme difficulty." The Springfields continued to work, with slight difficulty. On these salt water tests, the Garand was rated last, the Springfield first. (See pictures of how bullets are made...
...capital goods industries from their ten-year sleep. But this awakening has also generated new national income, caused a major revival in nonDefense, consumer industries as well. Item: department store sales for August were 11% above 1939. Item: residential building was 20% above 1939. Item: retailers in general, to reload their emptying shelves, have been in an almost panicky rush to buy everything from underwear to refrigerators. Automobile dealers are no exception...
...told by the cargo's Finnish shippers, who had presumably already been paid for it, to land it somewhere and await further orders. He landed it at Tangier in Morocco's International Zone. Before he could get his ship away, the port authorities ordered him to reload his perilous consignment and get it out of Tangier in a hurry...
...disclosure of the photographer's identity. Arguments summarized by Editor Grey: ¶ No British pilot is known to have made enough patrol flights to account for so many pictures. The 60 perfect pictures were said to be the fruit of "several hundred" exposures. The photographer, unable to reload his camera in the air, could make only one exposure per flight. ¶ No pilot has been heard from who saw so many astonishing sights in the air as this man's camera, pointed at random, caught perfectly. (The camera was supposed to be pointing not always parallel...
...self-loading infantry rifle perfected by General Thompson was last week awarded the British War Office prize of $15,000 and will now be tried generally throughout the British Army. A rifle for each soldier to carry, to fire aimed shots from the shoulder without pausing to reload, the Thompson self-loader differs from a machine gun in that the trigger is pulled for each shot instead of held down for a continuous stream of lead. Rid of the necessity for bolting a new cartridge into the firing chamber between shots, as in hand-loading rifles, a soldier...