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Biggest stumbling block to U.S.-Mexican attempts to settle their mutual differences (see p. 20) is Mexico's expropriated oil. Last week the expropriated U.S. oil companies turned down the latest State Department compromise, left the stumbling block still smack on the border...
...Sixteen times against the enemy! Sixteen times expose your backside as you smack into the hell and never mind what may become of you, watching the bullets of the enemy machine guns whip between your legs...
...high radio mast on the quay and the ship's mast. "I had to bank to port to get between them and while still at an angle of 45° we threw bombs at the ship's side, one at least hitting the ship with a smack." Still hedgehopping, the attackers fled, leaving growing clouds of smoke rising from the ships at the wharves...
Last week, against Cleveland's slick Southpaw Al Smith and Righthandy Jim Bagby (who relieved Smith in the eighth), Di Maggio failed to get a ball past the infield. Off Smith, he grounded out twice and drew a walk. Off Bagby, he hit smack into a double play...
...extra-heavy charges of explosives, but were fired from a standard 37-mm. anti-tank gun at the point-blank range of 100 yards. From A.C.F. armor placed at a sloping angle to the line of fire, the shells bounced without making a dent. When they were fired smack into plates at a flat right-angle to the gun, the shells penetrated the first layer of armor, stuck harmlessly in the rear layer...