Word: turrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never had so many people absent. Our chief engineer was tearing his hair." One company had not only lost many enlistees but had 1,500 applications for releases (from classification as a necessary worker), so that men could enlist. Another company in one day lost three turret-lathe operators out of 30. Another lost four automatic-screw machinists out of 18. A parts plant lost eight out of 16 patternmakers and another which employed eight lost eight (Navy pays up to $138 a month plus allowances for them...
...student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...
Though their riveted M35 sustained some shell hits, no rivets bounced about inside. Main fault in the tanks: an incendiary bullet, stuck in the pencil-thin crevice between the revolving turret and hull, froze the turret tight. The tankers unfroze the turret with an acetylene torch. (This defect has been corrected in the newer M-45, which have a collar over the crevice...
...York Times last week he serialized his story (somewhat toned down to suit the conservatism of the Times). Captured with a British tank brigade which was nearly destroyed in Libya, he was photographed by Field Marshal Rommel, a candid camera bug who sometimes popped out of a tank turret to lecture his captives on their tactical errors. Contriving to get himself turned over to Italy rather than Germany, he was treated "almost with perfect courtesy." But when the Germans forced his surrender to them, he was taken to Berlin and put in solitary confinement. Grilled mercilessly about unflattering stories...
...bone laboratories in the Museum are often asked by the police to examine skulls for possible cases of homicide. In wartime, the anthropologist has even greater usefulness, for it is up to his research and his statistics to determine what should be the size of a machine-gun turret so as to fit the greatest number of soldiers and to draw up dimensions for uniforms to clothe the average draftee. And what man could be more valuable to the nation's war effort than the anthropologist, who, by virtue of his explorations in the Far East and South Seas...