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Toluene-the conclusive T in TNT-goes under full allocation next week. So there will be less for paint solvents, dyes, etc., for civilian use. But for such currently essential uses as blowing the Axis to pieces, the production future of toluene looks bright. Furthermore there is a happy coincidence between the techniques of toluene and aviation gasoline production...
...highly secret" ammunition Great Britain recently put to work (TIME, Nov. 10). Whether in fact the Army's new explosive is identical with the British blaster, the Ordnance Department is not saying, but it does admit that its mysterious new stuff wallops 40% harder than TNT, hitherto the strongest bursting charge in general...
When the potent new explosive goes into mass production, it will head an impressive list of U.S. military explosives. Chief items: TNT, amatol (a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate for artillery shells and aerial bombs), smokeless powder (long in use as a propellant), tetryl (used in shell boosters to provoke the detonation of laggardly TNT or amatol). Least sensitive of all the Ordnance powders is ammonium pictrate, which is used in armor-piercing projectiles because it can wham through steel without going off at first impact...
...Battle of Russia had become in tensely personal to Joseph Stalin. His own life, which he had so zealously guarded with such alphabetical horrors as OGPU and NKVD, was endangered now by a horror called TNT. His own three rooms in the Kremlin were threatened: on seven occasions within a week bombs had fallen inside the old fort...
They also blew up 2,000 bridges in the path of the advancing Blues. The blowing up was theoretical but accurate: umpires with formulas in their pockets inspected every foot of fuse, every block of TNT, allowed no bridge to be closed off to the Blues unless enough simulated TNT was planted, in just the right spots, to tear it down...