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Most fascinating figure of the week: Prime Minister Winston Churchill slipping out of No. 10 Downing Street in tin hat and workman's blue overalls to have a look at the damage...
...came. Through the ship's corridors ran the call "Action Stations." Fire gongs clanged. Out of the darkness darted a flotilla of speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish. Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted forward out of their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian...
...enough lead, zinc, and magnesium. That was all. Two-thirds of her iron ore and 85% of her copper had to be imported. To feed her highly-developed smelters at Leipzig, Breslau, etc., she had little or no bauxite (aluminum ore), antimony, tin or the critical ferro-alloy metals: molybdenum, tungsten, chrome, nickel. The map shows how conquest enlarged her resources. Fine lines show her post-Versailles boundaries, the heavy line her holdings at the end of year I of World...
...restricted flow of goods in spite of the British blockade. Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Norway are leaks that have been plugged. Only Portugal, Spain, the Balkans and Russia remain, most of them strictly rationed by the blockade and with poor transportation systems for supplying him. Some copper, tin, a few other supplies can reach Germany by way of Vladivostok, but not in quantity. Germany cannot beat the blockade. She can only try to beat the blockader...
...secret Bachite coating process may make cheap black plate iron important to National Defense as an abundant and rust-resistant substitute for ordinary uses of: 1. Rubber. 2. Aluminum. 3. Copper. 4. Tin. 5. Lead...