Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since this change can mean so much to many servicemen in whom you are personally interested, we are sending you a letter through the mail to tell you more about it and to enclose a special copy of the lightweight "Pony" edition they will receive (because we could not ask the Army Post Offices to carry the fullweight edition as personal mail). And already we have received scores of V-mail letters from soldiers and sailors on far continents telling us what a kick they get out of receiving TIME's news as swiftly as their letters from home...
...guns obliterate targets 800 yards square less than five minutes after they are assigned-incredible by the standards at Soissons or Saint-Mihiel. Some of this speed-up comes from having changed the firing unit from the battery of four guns to the battalion of twelve. Some comes from lightweight radio and improved field telephone. But most comes from the G.F.T...
Conversations-and results-like this were commonplace in Sicily last week. Unarmed, lightweight grasshopper planes, carrying a pilot, an observer and a two-way radio, spotted targets and directed fire on them with a speed and accuracy that suggested special blessings from Santa Barbara...
...Carrying lightweight portable radios borrowed from the U.S. Forest Service, fire-control parties went ashore in the first waves, one party to each assault battalion. With them were Army Signal Corps officers...
...Fight Manager Benny Woodall asleep together; so he just quietly "left out." Hannah's attorney burned him with a remark about narcotics. "I'm no neurotic," snapped Harry the Horse. "I never touch the stuff." Another witness told of the times he had seen Hannah and ex-Lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins together. Another reported on Dempsey's front-door entrances as Hannah's visitors left by the side door...