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...commander, rangy, red-haired Lieut. Colonel Frank R. Williams of the Armored Force, was sitting on a 14-inch-square leather seat, bolted to the iron deck, alongside the 75-mm. gun. His head, protected by a yellow leather crash helmet, was pressed against an oblong sponge-rubber rim which framed the eyepiece of an 18-in. telescopic gun sight. Whenever his target centered in the cross hairs of the sight, he touched an electric firing key, watched a 15-lb. high-explosive projectile rip through a framework target tank...
Chungking admitted last week that transportation on the Burma Road had been seriously disrupted. Shanghai reports said that Burma Road bridges across the winding Mekong River had been bombed to pieces, were piled up as wreckage downstream. Months ago Chinese anti-aircraft guns were foolishly placed high on the rim of the Mekong gorges. Japanese bomber pilots soon learned to swoop below the gun level, bombed the deep-gorge bridges with relative impunity. Later the guns were lowered. Last week it was said that along the Road supply trucks were jammed up by the hundreds-fine bombing targets -waiting...
...nippy early morning, as the sun began to rim the eastern pines, a gallery of 80 or more started out with the dogs. Not a few with a nose for points felt they had seen the championship heat in the very first brace: The Texas Ranger, sensation of the prairie-chicken trials, v. Tarheelia's Lucky Strike, 1940 pheasant champion. They were right. The Ranger, a five-year-old liver-&-white pointer, owned by D. B. McDaniel of Houston and handled by little Jack Harper, was judged champion. Runner-up: Lucky Strike. During the three days, The Ranger found...
...suspended in a vacuum by means of mag nets. It is driven by electrical induction (i.e., without wires). Apparently its speed is limited only by the strength of the steel balls used for rotors. Before they exploded, the investigators got up to more than 6,000,000 r.p.m., to rim speeds of 3,500 miles an hour. So far they have done little with this machine on separation of uranium isotopes. They are more interested in separating blood plasma from blood for storage and shipment to war-pounded Britain...
...pillboxes, land mines and artillery emplacements, 15 miles in perimeter. After the British mechanized units, commanded by Major General Michael O'Moore Creagh had pinned them in, the encircled men tried to run for it, thousands at a time. As they fled on the coast road around the rim of Cyrenaica toward Marshal Graziani's main fortified base at Tobruch, 70 miles west, the R. A. F. and the mechanized British attacked them and occasionally fleet units shelled the road. At length the Bardia troops resigned themselves to being bottled up, praying for rescue...