Word: maneuverability
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The Strenuous Life. In Wilbur, Wash., the spinning rod of a reaper caught Rancher Walter Wynhoff by the overalls, gave him a spin, tossed him aside wearing only his shoes and eyeglasses. In an Army maneuver area in Tennessee, a bolt of lightning struck the zipper of a sleeping bag...
Into the hot hills of the Desert Training Center (TIME, July 19) slogged a platoon on its six-day endurance maneuver -39 men and a lieutenant. Last week 36 came back, reported three dead, one missing. During the first night out they missed a rendezvous with the water truck. The...
This was, first of all, expert psychological warfare. Wrote New York Post Columnist Samuel Grafton: "The slogans offered are German slogans, not American, British or Russian slogans; Germans are invited to fight, not for our sakes, but for their own. . . . This is political blitz." Secondly, it may be a political...
And there is room aplenty for all kinds of live artillery practice. Gas (tear) is a maneuver hazard. Live bombs crunch. Every soldier learns to crawl under live machinegun fire 40 inches off the ground.
Chester Davis quickly requisitioned for the refineries, at the ceiling price, the corn now stored in 96 Midwestern elevators (estimated stock: 12 million bushels). But even this drastic maneuver would not tide the plants over more than two or three weeks.