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...hauled up his broad-brimmed hat in its place. Another changed the name of the main street from Via Mussolini to Via Ned Kelly-after a famous bush bandit from New South Wales who in his raids on towns defied death by dressing in 97 pounds of iron armor...
...which hides the pursued, but also hides the pursuer. It is under the dark, heaving water; and even in the air, electric with the radio waves that may mean safety, may mean destruction. And there are terrifying shots-the sinking of a submarine, shells bursting on deck armor that squirts and sizzles like a thousand molten firecrackers...
Newshounds sniffing around the Norfolk (Va.) Navy Yard last week reported that the old (1911), 26,000-ton battleship Wyoming was being furbished up with new guns and armor, would be returned to fleet duty. Because the Wyoming has long been used only to train new sailors and officers, this report sounded as if the Navy were getting ready to buckle on everything...
Last week the Air Corps heard some more disturbing news. Into Washington trickled authenticated reports that Rolls-Royce had brought out a 2,000-h.p. job, and that it had pulled a new Hawker Typhoon, bristling with guns and loaded with armor, at better than 410 m.p.h. If this new, more powerful engine holds up in service, the Air Corps may have to revise its notions on horsepower...
...least 20 of Hearst's collections were outstandingly good, and five-armor, English furniture, English silver, Gothic tapestry, Hispano-Moresque pottery-ranked among the finest private collections in the world...