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Flood Tide. Through the breach thundered the British tanks, engaging the flank of the German armor which had let itself be drawn too far north. For six hours the armed columns fought and maneuvered. Now it was no longer a question of hurling the Axis line back, but of fanning out behind it and engulfing...
...Experts estimated that Germany would have to have 150,000 tons of high-grade Turkish chromium in 1943 or the quality of German armor plate would depreciate...
...United Nations had a great piece of luck. In Washington, mining officials happily announced that a "large deposit" of molybdenite had been discovered about 400 miles northwest of Quebec. Molybdenite yields molybdenum, a white, slippery alloying metal which is so vital in armor plate and guns that it is No. 1 on Canada's strategic list...
...Council works closely with the industry's War Engineering Board, which tackles the larger problems of methods and materials. To save welding, Fisher engineers worked out a system for bending tank armor on the presses that used to stamp out auto bodies, promptly offered it to Chrysler and Ford. G.M. had to make its own machines to bore turrets, so it made some for Ford and Chrysler too. Ford developed a new, better compound for molding ignition parts, which Pratt & Whitney now uses. "Liquid forging," a Ford casting method, releases forging equipment for other work, saves large amounts...
...super-plane is this Zero, captured in the Aleutians. It is well built, flies beautifully, but has no armor, less power (900 h.p.), less speed (about 300 m.p.h.), less firepower (two cannon, two machine guns) than the best U.S. fighters...