Word: salvos
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...ahead the bulky, unmistakable shape of a battleship winks a bright orange light. Then the soft thudding slap comes over the water: that blinker was a 14-inch salvo. Cruisers, battlewagons and tin cans are standing in amazingly close to the shore, pounding away with all their guns. We knew the island was to catch some 12,000 rounds of projectiles, 5-inch or bigger. But that was just a statistic; now we see it. We hear the blast of the big guns and the ripping-silk sound of the heavy shells sailing to their targets. We see the warships...
Last week Trippe fired a second salvo. Many of his would-be competitors over Latin American routes hope to compete with Pan Am's Atlantic and Pacific services. So Trippe filed for routes that would sew up every major service on the world airways. He plotted on the map of Pan Am's world (see cut) new services to South Africa, to Moscow via Iceland or London, to Asia via Alaska, and to Australia via Hawaii. Most daring of all: the dream of pushing on across the Mediterranean over India, and linking Pan Am's Atlantic...
...When a U.S. artillery unit let go with a practice salvo in England, 30 ewes in a neighboring field had miscarriages. The Claims Office figured that two-thirds of the offspring would have had a normal life span. Award: the value of 20 sheep...
Like many a plain front-line G.I., General McNair was hit by a wild salvo dropped in the heavy air preparations for the Normandy breakthrough (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...guns of U.S. newspaper book reviewing greeted Rome Hanks last fort night with the most thunderous salvo that has welcomed a first novel since Gone With The Wind. It was a "superb achieve ment" to the New York Times and "a beautiful and terrible book" to the Herald Tribune; a "powerful, intense and tre mendous story" to the Chicago Sun; "extraordinary, impressive, raw, vital, brutal and alive" to the San Francisco Chronicle...