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...cloths are just as warm, about one-third the price. Instead of a fur parka, the Army prefers one made of tightly woven cotton lined with alpaca, trimmed with wolverine or wolf fur. On such fur, the Army believes, the breath will not freeze. Coyote fur, hitherto regarded by Southwestern ranchers as so much predatory garbage, is now declared by the Army to be almost as good as wolf. Army cold-weather garments cannot be standardized: possible conditions are too variable...
William H. Kelly, of Tuscon, Ariz., as Research Associate in Southwestern American Ethnology; B.A. University of Arizona...
...products formerly imported from Europe (wines, cheeses, anchovies, etc.). The 50% cut on canned-beef tariff (from 6? to 3? per Ib.) aroused the usual speaking-for-the-record opposition by beef-State Congressmen, but it meant little. Said J. Taylor, president of the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association...
Myth. In the eyes of most Russians, Semion Budenny is something superhuman. They say that in the Revolution he and his horsemen struck like lightning, that ever since he has been a fine thunderbolt of a man. His was the revolutionary cry which swept southwestern Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" Such speed did he command that sometimes (the legend goes) he personally fought in half a dozen sectors at once. With five men, the peasants say, he routed an army under Denikin. His praise, it is said, made men warm in winter; he could kill with no other ammunition than unprintable...
Siege of Tobruch was a month old when the Axis attackers tried again to take the place by an assault on the southwestern rim of the defense perimeter. Nazi tanks accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which...