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...Luck has contributed a spectacular share to the naval encounters of World War II. When the British knocked out the fire-control tower of the Admiral Graf Spee and when the Germans dropped a bomb smack down on the plane elevator shaft of the Illustrious, something more than skill was involved. Considering the fact that the average number of hits in sea battle at long range comes to little more than 2% of rounds fired, the hit on one of Hood's magazines from extreme range of nearly 13 miles was fantastically lucky. And the British had their share...
Historical Novelist James Boyd (Drums Marching On, Long Hunt), who once said he would not write about the present because "things are moving too fast," last week jumped smack into midstream of present happenings. He bought and became editor of his local paper, the Southern Pines, N.C. Pilot ("a guaranteed circulation of 1,200 and I count a man a subscriber even if he pays with a sack of potatoes...
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...minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract a 75-mm. shell casing from a semiautomatic breech, allow a split second for the gases to be blown out the muzzle, return the empty casing to its place in a rack beneath the breech, yank out a live shell, smack it in the breech, close the breech lock...
...important a cause for the turbulent racket was the fight for union recognition.Labor felt that if it did not strengthen its position during the war it would be badly set back on the coming of peace. Unionizing drives ran smack into ancient prejudices. The battle at Bethlehem was only a skirmish in C. I. O.'s long effort to organize that company. Trouble started last week when an election of officers to the Employes' Representation Plan (which NLRB declared to be a company-dominated union) was flaunted in the faces of C. I. O. steelworkers. The Washington News...