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Cause. In Hastings, N. Y., Hamilton Cochrane mailed a Revolutionary cannon ball back to the British to be made into "a modern projectile or bomb and fired again in a better cause...
Last week the Chinese High Command in bomb-scarred Chungking had grave new worries. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops have been getting most of their war supplies from the southwest over the Burma Road, from the southeast by night smuggling from Hong Kong-via Chinese junks and coolies' carts-to the free sections of the Canton-Hankow railway. Last week the Japanese were slicing viciously at both supply lines...
Several days later Greene was riding back to his hotel in one of the rare London hacks when a bomb landed about a mile ahead. A few seconds later another bomb exploded about half that distance away, which meant that the next one would strike just about where he was. The cabbie dashed panic-stricken into a nearby tavern and Greene threw himself on the floor of the back. The bomb lit only 100 yards away and its concussion knocked the correspondent against the side of the cab shaken but unhurt...
Magnesium weighs 33% less than aluminum, 75% less than steel. As strong (in tensility) as the best cast iron, it can be used in airplane motors, crankcases, landing wheels, pontoons; the weight it saves can then be switched to gasoline or bomb load. It also has important military use in lightweight bomb casings and (because of the inflammability which once made it invaluable to photographers as flashlight powder) in parachute flares, incendiary bombs, tracer bullets. German production, according to Arnold, has jumped 500% since 1938 (to an estimated 25,000 tons last year...
...eight hours a day on his private affairs, continues to write a biography of the 15th-century Florentine Merchant-Trader Cosimo de' Medici. The huge glass window of his former office on Oxford Street, cut with autographs of the great and near-great, has been shattered by a bomb...