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...away from Kiukiang before we could get there. A great ocean freighter went past under our wings. By now the boats were growing thicker. Great patches in the river seemed alive. We grew tense in our seats watching for the target, watching for rising planes, watching for ack-ack fire, peering up into the sky above us for Japanese Zeros...
...cutting costs and saving time all along the line through mass-production short cuts: a parts plant lopped 25% off the time Army Ordnance thought it would take to make machine guns; an automaker cut the time scheduled for a British ack-ack gun by four months and evolved a new way of broaching the barrel that cut that operation from 3½ hours to 15 minutes; another parts maker improvised machine-gun equipment that beats regular arsenal machinery by 20-30 times; an automatic cannon that cost $1,200 to make 18 months ago now costs around...
...Museum wound up a mammoth moving job. Safely stowed in a secret steel and concrete country house 100 miles from New York are 10,000 art treasures-enough to be the nucleus of another great museum. The Metropolitan has been laying evacuation plans for two years: it fears friendly ack-ack shells more than enemy bombs. Gold and silver, ivory, jades and jewelry have gone into bank vaults. A carefully chosen 2% of the museum's remaining 500,000 treasures have been trucked to the country hideaway. Gone are the Altman and most of the Morgan collections...
...soldiers) on the scene backed up the Army report. The planes which they swore they had seen had moved slowly across the night sky, evidently circling. Observers also reported that anti-aircraft bursts were considerably short of the point where searchlights converged, despite the theoretical longer range of the ack-ack guns; only about half of the shells burst at all, indicating lots of duds...
...have a locator equally effective. The German device worked perfectly on the U.S. Catalina patrol bomber which spotted the Bismarck last May: the bomber had been followed through the clouds by radio detection from the German battleship, and the instant the plane appeared it got such a hail of ack-ack fire that it had to retreat...