Word: armor
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...anti-tank weapon is not a makeshift (like the captured tanks from which the Germans shear armor and top-hamper for greater speed, or the improvised tactical organizations used in the Carolina maneuvers-see col. 1) but a machine specially built to destroy tanks. It is long (30 feet), low-lying (7 feet), armored, mounted on wheels, not caterpillars...
...many hours later the men of the Ark learned that the big girl, top-heavy with her thick deck armor, had rolled over on her back, lifted herself a bit by the stern, like some great animal making a last stab at survival, then plunged. The men were heartbroken, not over the fact, inconsequential to most of them, that Britain's third carrier loss* left the Royal Navy only nine of these invaluable craft, but simply because their invulnerable, incomparable Ark was gone...
...mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate for artillery shells and aerial bombs), smokeless powder (long in use as a propellant), tetryl (used in shell boosters to provoke the detonation of laggardly TNT or amatol). Least sensitive of all the Ordnance powders is ammonium pictrate, which is used in armor-piercing projectiles because it can wham through steel without going off at first impact...
...Armor plate: running 14% behind schedule, but picking up fast...
With this addition, total U.S. electric steel capacity will be 3,900,000 tons, 50% more than at year's beginning. The clean heat of an electric furnace produces tough, highly resilient steels for bullet-resistant armor plate, shells and gun barrels. Practically all U.S. electric steel now produced goes directly into arms...