Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enough stopping power. They got to work on a light-weight cartridge (the T-65) that was half an inch shorter than the standard Garand cartridge and weighed about 16% less, without sacrificing any weight in the bullet itself. The light rifle* that they built around the stubby new shell fires as heavy a slug with the same muzzle velocity (about 2,800 ft. per second) as the Garand, but weighs 1¾ Ibs. less...
Hitting a tank with a 16-in. shell from a battleship's main battery is something like potting a mouse with an elephant gun. It isn't often done-but when it is, there isn't much left of the mouse...
...lecture on fake stories about cease-fires and armistices. He recalled that he had been marching his battery down a road in France on Oct. 27, 1918, when someone handed him a French paper with a headline announcing that an armistice had been signed. Just then a 150-mm. shell burst about 100 yards away on one side of the road, and then another on the other side. That story was put out by Roy Howard (president of Scripps-Howard newspapers), said Truman, and it was a fake. The A.P. story on the cease-fire was a parallel. He understood...
Similar offers went to Caltex of California and Britain's Burmah-Shell. In return the three outfits would promise to train Indian technicians, employ as much Indian labor as possible, and stimulate Indian industries. By 1955 the companies hope to have three oil refineries worth $100 million, producing two to three million tons of refined products a day. A compact advantageous to both parties, it is also welcome as the first major investment of private U.S. capital in India since India won its independence...
...bellowing that this was a forgotten war. I told the President he shouldn't come over, but I had some free time." After a Thanksgiving dinner in a jet pilots' mess, the Veep moved up to the front lines, where he autographed a 105-mm. howitzer shell, pulled the lanyard and celebrated his 74th birthday with the wish: "I hope I got some...