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...speed of the Kimberley. Because her silhouette is not unlike the Sydney's, mistaking the Kimberley for a cruiser might be understandable. But the Italians' gloss-over of their loss of another destroyer was something else. It was further evidence that the Italian Navy, in which armor and striking power are sacrificed for speed, is good only for swift hit-&-run attacks, not for a stand-up fight with the tough...
...President spent 21 minutes in the Homestead plant (armor plate), 15 minutes at the Mesta Machine Co. At Terrace Village, $14,000,000 project of the U. S. Housing Authority, he gave the keys of a four-room apartment to Steelworker Lester Churchfield, with a brief, extemporaneous speech on the meaning of housing and defense: "As long as they know that their Government is sympathetically working to protect their jobs and to better their homes, we can be confident that if the need arises the people themselves will wholeheartedly join in the defense of their homes and the defense...
...need not tell you gentlemen that the powder question was awfully late in getting started. . . ." Last week Army men murmured that Franklin Roosevelt caused some of the delay by holding up contracts for new munitions plants. The Navy meantime allotted $96,000,000 to 15 ship and naval armor makers, to expand their production facilities...
Most U. S. schoolboys have goggled at museum collections of armor, swords, muskets, pistols. Few museum arms displays are calculated to stir the imaginations of adults. But last week, Leslie Cheek, imaginative director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, put on a vivid show called "Again: Arms & Armor...
Stephen V. Grancsay, curator of arms & armor at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum (which has the biggest U. S. public collection), helped Director Cheek install his show. To the press, Armor-Lover Grancsay declared that body armor for civilians was the coming thing. (On exhibit was a contemporary armor suit, apparently not yet in use.) Said he: "Mass production could turn them out at less than $100. Just figure up what it now costs the Government to provide hospital care for the thousands who are injured. Armor would be less expensive." Curator Grancsay recalled that Cellini, da Vinci...