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Originally acclaimed as a spectacle to match "King of Kings," the DeMille production is a melange of religion, sex, and mob scenes. It is slow-moving and stagy, but a lot of people will love it for its bacchanals, its armor-clanking, its Christian-eating lions, and its mob scenes...
Diversion. Weeks before, the Japs had been drawn northward by two threats on Mandalay. The enemy rushed armor to meet those threats. Then, in daring and unorthodox thrusts, Lieut. General Sir William J. Slim got forces across the Irrawaddy river 80 miles south of Mandalay. With Jap strength stalled in the north, General Slim's tanks dashed 85 miles to Meiktila. In that area, in a five-day battle, his Britons and Gurkhas captured eight airfields and severed rail and road lines from Rangoon (TIME, March...
Lacking nickel for hardening steel in armor plate, they first substituted chromium and molybdenum alloys, then used thin sheets of steel bonded together, which require much less alloy for hardening than does a single thick plate. The analysis showed the Germans used their small supply of alloy metals again & again, by painstakingly sorting the scrap from their wrecked armor, according to its alloy content...
...metallurgists' detective work proved that in some metals the Germans have been less badly off than supposed. They have had enough tungsten, for example, to shoot it away in armor-piercing projectiles...
...GREEN ARMOR-Osmar White-Norton ($3). An Australian reporter's account of the "terrible laboratory" of Japs and jungles in which our Allied forces learned to fight. Straightforward and informative...