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Standard anchored sea mine is 300 Ib. of TNT in a steel case about three feet in diameter, providing enough airspace to float it. The "uncontrolled" mine, which goes off at contact of any heavy object upon the "horns" (containing detonators) with which it is studded, is usually anchored by a sinker at such depth as will keep it invisible at low tide. U. S. mines used in World War I had 35-ft. antennae attached to their horns which greatly increased their contact range. For harbor defense, "controlled" mines are fitted with electrically charged detonators discharged...
...Legend: The War Office reportedly negotiated the promise in return for the TNT formula of Jewish Chemist Chaim Weizmann, longtime Zionist leader...
...Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack on so much TNT...
...Manhattan last week, 230-lb. Tony Galento-also known as Two-Ton Tony, the Jersey Nightstick, the TNT Kid, the One-Man Riot and the "beer barrel that walks like a man"-achieved something of a moral victory when he faced Heavyweight Nathan Mann, a fairly well-rated boxer, as a headliner in Madison Square Garden. Suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission last winter because he insisted upon, training on beer and hot dogs in his Orange saloon and doing his road work at the wheel of an automobile, Bartender Galento, whose face is the color of biscuit...
...first time in many a moon, the Admirals from Maryland tack their skiffs up the Charles and dock at Weld. In the Stadium, the gobs will fire broad-sides of TNT at the Harvard defence, and after the game, Harvard look to your laurals. Uniforms have a peculiar effect upon women. The Best Bets of the week according to Lloyd's are: Harvard, Princeton and the following top notch dine and dance spots...