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Even the guards were hot. Co-Captain Dave Bradfield connected for 18 points; five-foot six-inch Chuck Rolles, a sophomore, scored 13. Rolles has been named, incidentally, to a United Press all-American team--the small stature team for players under...
Exploding Alarm. A fire alarm that explodes with two bulletlike reports 30 seconds apart at a temperature of 400° F. will be made by Southland Industries, Inc., Chattanooga. The alarm, consisting of two cylinders of gas in a six-inch length of stainless steel pipe, can be placed anywhere in a home. Probable price...
...three-incher, and the depth charges. To prove his calling, he sauntered up to the big gun, pulled a lever, slapped the breech closed, and joshed, "Wouldn't do to have one of my boy's hands get caught in there." I coughed slightly and agreed, sizing up the six-inch solid steel breech block...
Since Little's days are constantly occupied with personal meetings and telephone conversations, he rarely has enough time to attend to his paper work. But with persistent optimism he assures his secretary that the six-inch pile of letters on his desk each morning will be answered by dinner time. When 5 o'clock rolls around and the pile is no smaller than it was when he walked in that morning, he smiles and says, "Well, you know, we've just got to get that stuff out of the way tomorrow...
...Over the years, two U.S. Navy subs have been christened Nautilus, and the best-remembered of them was the monster 3,000-ton boat of World War II fame. Launched in 1930, she was huge and .deadly, twice as big as ordinary fleet boats, with a pair of six-inch guns, two decks and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. Before she was scrapped because of old age in 1946, World War II's Nautilus went on 14 successful patrols, was the first U.S. sub to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier (the 10,000-ton Soryu, at Midway), and landed...