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They were just games, but they had the look, sound, smell of motorized war. They even had casualties: at week's end, twelve dead, about 200 injured. Engines aground and aloft belched more noise and fumes than did the guns (which fired blanks). There were agile, armored scout cars (with four guns, two-way radio). Excellent medium and light tanks (but no such heavy tanks as the Germans' mighty 80-tonners) rumbled up against 3 7 mm. anti-tank guns (which can pierce 2-inch armor at 1,500 yards) and smokepots (devised to blind tank crews...
...England. Great Britain's Royal Tank Corps became the Royal Armoured Corps of two divisions, plus two Territorial divisions, totaling in all about 1,000 tanks, mostly light (6 ton), with some Packard-motored 12 tonners. The Allies considered their tanks superior to Germany's in armor and firepower, though slightly slower, less numerous...
...they reinforced to bear the juggernauts' weight. Between planes overhead and the clanking mastodons on the ground, radio contact was kept up constantly. Timing was worked out to a matter of seconds. Fire-power of the break-through tanks was several heavy machine guns, plus light cannon. Their armor could resist any fire short of 75 mm. at all ordinary ranges-a fact which nullified the French defense plan of 25 mm. anti-tank guns arranged in depth. Once through, the break-through tanks sought only to smash up all anti-tank weapons in sight, then to plunge ahead...
...high-grade steel that Disston makes in its own furnace has other uses too. Reputedly the leading U. S. private maker of light tank armor, Disston, to handle war orders, put up $250.000 worth of new buildings in 1938-39, has virtually completed a new $300,000 armor-plate plant. Disston saw $1.250,000 worth of war orders held up by its strike last week. Stopped cold was a rush order for armored plane seats for fighting planes now in service in France. Interrupted were U. S. Army orders for armored scout cars, gun shields, light armor plate...
Exactly how the soap works-whether it dissolves the "armor" of the virus, or clutches it in a chemical grip-Drs. Stock & Francis have not yet discovered. Nor are they quite ready to try their mixture as a vaccine on human beings...