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Excitement seekers who complain that the newsreel outfits aren't taking advantage of their chance to photograph history as it gallops past, haven't any more kick coming. For what the newsreels haven't done, Hollywood has-in no uncertain manner. "A Yank in the R. A. F." packs enough wallop in its action shots to satisfy the appetite of the most thrill-hungry customer. And when it comes to making a graphic account of the events of Europe today, scenes like the British evacuation from Dunkirk, and the night raid over Berlin tops, for sheer punch, anything that...
...bang out of plenty of noise, lots of blood and even more thunder, with some excellent aerial photography thrown in then "A Yank in the R. A. F." is almost sure to make you sit up and ask Winston for more. It's as much fun as hissing Hitler in the newsreels...
Hertz's intentions, not his background, worry the Army. Two fears: 1) that he will yank MTD away from the Army, make it an independent bureau; 2) that he will work too fast, redden the face of many a poky brass hat. As aides, Hertz will use businessmen, not Army officers...
...Association of American Railroads President Pelley's contention that the industry should yank 20,000 idle tank cars off sidings, the oilmen replied that these cars were a normal reserve required for coming peak movements. They questioned whether the railroads had the motive power to haul any more tank cars, and suggested that a better solution was to use present equipment more efficiently, and to use more tank trucks on short hauls...
...feet. At 30 rounds a minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract a 75-mm. shell casing from a semiautomatic breech, allow a split second for the gases to be blown out the muzzle, return the empty casing to its place in a rack beneath the breech, yank out a live shell, smack it in the breech, close the breech lock...