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...soon afterward began to figure more in gang news than in Army talk. Of 15,000 Thompsons ("Tommies") manufactured by Colt in 1921, nearly 5,000 were still unsold 18 years later. But World War II revised military opinion: the light, easily handled submachine gun (spitting a stream of .45-calibre bullets 300-400 yards, battle sight-i.e., point-blank range) turned out to be a potent weapon in shock tactics. Recently Great Britain was reported eager to buy 250,000 to 500,000 from the U. S.-if they could be made fast enough...
...last week the opposition to the Avila Camacho counterrevolution had become both vocal and violent. Since the new President's inauguration a steady stream of Nazi agents has filtered into the country. Last week Nazis and Communists were distributing pamphlets denouncing the "counter-revolution backed by Yanqui Imperialism." The Government had to call out police armed with rifles and tear gas to keep an eye on the demonstration in Mexico City...
...case of a small invasion (e.g., vaccination), the disturbed cells set about manufacturing hooks (antibodies) in great profusion, throw them off into the blood stream. Then, when another protein army comes along, there are enough hooks loose in the blood to deal with the invaders. The person has been immunized...
flown across the Atlantic in a steady stream. . . . Britain now has more air planes of every type in operation than ever before in history...
...back to the surface. The same principle enables airplanes to keep a continuous record of their altitude. But, long before there were any ships, planes or men, bats invented the same system for blind flying. Able both to produce and to hear supersonic sounds, they utter a steady, staccato stream of supersonic squeaks, keep away from ob-tacles from which echoes bounce back. Thus they can fly through intricate mazes in the dark...