Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...high-pressure gases in the split-second of explosion that they become inaccurate. Such guns must be cooled between shots or their barrels, superheated, will sag at the muzzle. Between shots, too, their gunners must calculate (from a pressure gauge communicating with the bore) how much to add to the charge to allow for progressive scoring and keep up the range...
...Add Third-Termites of the Week: Illinois's bald, paunchy Governor Henry Horner. Chicago's bluff, blunt Mayor Edward Kelly. Add anti-Third Termites: New York City's Republican Bruce Barton, adman, God-man and Congressman from the Park Avenue district: "I feel sure that Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt will be permitted to have a happy, peaceful time at Hyde Park in the future...
...January 1939, the Building Fund has been enriched by $370,000-and Gulf has had the most impressive guest-star parade any radio sponsor ever got for his money. By June, close of the present season's contract, the radio program will have brought in $540,000, to add to some $90,000 previously collected. So the Fund hopes to start construction this year, on the broad green pasture of the San Fernando Valley, of a building with recreation halls, a big dining room, a dispensary, surrounded by cottages, to be named after the cinema's great...