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People who look at her portraits are apt to find themselves disconcertingly in the picture, by reflection. A well-grounded, competent artist in her own right, Mrs. Mullen concedes with reluctance that her material is now matériel. She says sadly: "If people would realize that a sheet of 10-gauge steel 6 by 18 ft. would only make one and one-half inches of battleship plate, and even then it's too thin...
...observers, technicians, advisers into his organization; 2) expanded Italian installations in Eritrea into supply and repair bases ("We took up the job where they left off; it was very convenient"); 3) established schools to train British personnel on U.S. equipment, and so thoroughly familiarized them with U.S. matériel that he could now turn the schools over to them...
Still deep military secrets are the number of U.S. service troops in the area, the amount of matériel the United Nations have piled up, and the Allied plans...
They surprised and overpowered four Italian garrisons, destroyed huge quantities of war matériel, then headed back south with their prisoners. Triumphantly last week they quoted the remark of an Italian prisoner after a similar De Gaullist raid on Kufra last year: "Only those French devils could have done...
...superb preparation and defense of the Philippines-almost entirely lacking in planes and tanks, which are at least 95% of modern warfare's matériel-General Douglas MacArthur was 1941's Man of the Year with no close competitors...