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...like a shoat bound for market, a Curtiss Kittihawk fighter plane spewed bullets into a wood and earth bunker at Buffalo. In the Army's first public demonstration of warplane firepower since Pearl Harbor, the gas-pipe-like guns threw more than 387 Ib. of lead and armor-piercing steel per minute, clattering like a dozen riveting hammers inside a caisson...
Costumes ranging from suits of armor to grass skirts will feature the Dunster House Spring Costume Ball tomorrow night. A prize will be given to the best and most original costume worn. Also featured will be the winners of Monday night's swing contest who will play an entire set with Andy Kirks" Clouds...
...Fort Meade private (Frederick Gaither) came on the air with his partner, a Garand rifle named "Stinky," and discussed its make-up and accomplishments with Sportscaster Bill Stern. This was an easygoing, informative skit, especially for anyone unaware that U.S. soldiers now carry armor-piercing rifle ammunition to drill through the belly of enemy tanks...
...Europe and the U.S. caught up in the 19th Century). Now, at the great Tata works in Jamshedpur, 135 miles inland from Calcutta, the inheritors of that tradition produce most of India's steel (1,250,000 tons per year-about 1½% of U.S. production). They make armor plate, steel bars for guns, shells, other munitions. At last reports, 600,000 complete shells and 150,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition had gone out from Indian plants to British war zones. Also near Calcutta are many of India's textile mills, its richest coal and iron...
...North Dakota, scrapped before the march of naval progress, was a Mississippi scow compared with the U.S.S. Washington, one of the newest battlewagons, with her heavy armor protection for crews above decks (against shell and bomb splinters), her massive armament (topped by nine 16-inchers), her imposing hull and turret armor, her sleek, low-lying speed lines...