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Tanks. Speed is the keystone of Hitler's Army, and the fastest, toughest fighting machines in it are tanks. Their performance in Poland and Flanders so impressed the U. S. Army's General Staff that they redesigned their medium tanks to give them more armor and weight. Army men are still scratching their heads for an effective defense against them...
...Incidentally, the girl who was dancing was the girl who became my wife, and is now my wife. So I sat there and watched him, and I made a suggestion. I said, 'Wouldn't it be funny if one of those comics hid in that suit of armor in the hallway?' Gilbert Pratt looked at me and said, 'What for?' I said, 'And then when the professor walks in and he throws his cigaret away, and he throws it in the suit of armor, look what will happen. . . .' That started...
Last week the Navy bought a steel mill in San Francisco, Calif., to turn out armor plate for ships. Then the Navy did approximately what would have to be done with any conscripted plant. Delegated to run the Navy plant was Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s subsidiary Union Iron Works, which was already making destroyers and cruisers on a voluntary contract...
...Council ran for cover. It dropped its charges against Quality House (and two other stores), let them sell at any price they wished. To low-price retailers (like Macy's), who have fought price-fixing for five years, this was cheerful news-a big hole in the armor of all price-fixing theorists. To New York State legislators it looked as though a major operation would have to be done on the battered Feld-Crawford...
...agencies partly financed.* Last week Mr. Palmer figured that the U. S. defense industries needed 42,000 new housing units, the Navy needed 65.700 more; the Army soon would need at least 50.000. Within a year or so, must come also housing for workers of the new powder, gun, armor, and other factories which the Army and Navy expect to finance. To a $5,246,000,000 Defense Bill which Congress passed last week, $100,000,000 had been added for general defense housing, $128,000,000 for National Guard barracks...