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Their obvious use would be in night bombing raids. For that job they carry the wickedest slug in the air. A fully loaded B-17 carries five tons of bombs in its belly, can lug them in any size, from 100 to 2,000 pounds. Its prodigious cruising range with full load is 3,000 miles; it can go out 1,200 miles and return, with 20% reserve in fuel. Operating from Britain, with tanks only half full, B-17s could bomb Berlin. With full tanks they could reach the great armament plants in Prague, mess up the vast...
...sitting down, raised his gun. He never got up. Before he could fire, Conley had grabbed Wade's shotgun, blazed away at Martin with both barrels. Martin fell forward. Conley's partner, Loftin, who had already disarmed the guards at his end of the line, fired another slug into the prone body. Martin rolled over, dead. Conley looked around, saw another guard drawing a bead on him. He raised his shotgun, snapped both empty barrels, just as the guard was overpowered and disarmed by the convicts...
...Battle Royal" is the name for a free-for-all staged by fight clubs when they dump a dozen battlers into the ring to slug it out until only one is left standing. Battle Royal was the name for Florida's pre-primary campaigns last week. Few were the burning issues, but many were the candidates...
...present hullabaloo in Brooklyn: "The reduction of Tammany to the status of a borough organization in Manhattan, the borough of diminishing population, and . . . the rise of other and stronger bosses in Brooklyn and The Bronx. . . ." Their mobsters generally remain two-dimensional. One who comes terribly to life, however, is slug-faced Arthur Flegenheimer, who as "Dutch Schultz" went from beer-running to the numbers racket and in his heyday treated Tammany Boss James J. Hines as his stooge. If Gang Rule In New York contained nothing else, it would be note worthy for preserving the full stenographic record of Schultz...
...pickle, is Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Princess Alice takes Bob Taft seriously as a G.O.P. possibility. Last week she said, thinking of the possibility that Bob Taft might succeed Franklin Roosevelt : "It would be like drinking a glass of milk after taking a slug of benzedrine...