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Since the plane is jerry-built and the medium-powered engines are French, the Germans consider it expendable. They never knew how expendable it was until last week...
Once limited to small shapes (like porous oil-filled bearings for automobile springs), plastic metals are now molded into thousands of parts, from tiny bearings (1/64th oz.) to big pieces (65 lb.). that replace castings on medium tanks. Powdered metals, molded to shape with heat and pressure, need little machining or finishing, save time as well as bronze, aluminum and other scarce metals...
...biggest casualty among weapons is the tank, whose decline has already been noted (TIME, March 29). One plant recently laid off 9,000 workers. The U.S. Army has ordered manufacture of M-3 light tanks to taper off, eventually to stop. Manufacture of the M-7 (light-medium) tank-an Armored Forces bad guess-has already stopped. Production of new M-5 light tanks will be increased, but gradually. Medium tank production is being slowed...
...prewar favorites have gone down the drain: the 37-mm. anti-aircraft gun (replaced for medium altitude firing by the Bofors 40-mm.) and the famed 75-mm. field artillery piece (which gives way to the higher-velocity 3-in. gun that can stop any tank seen thus far). Infantry divisions still get some 37-mm. guns for anti-tank defense but will eventually replace them with six-wheeled...
Harold Smith's "Appraisal" ranks with the Advocate's best stories. Featuring the same control of medium which has characterized this author's earlier work, this tale demonstrates a new and more mature attention to descriptive detail. An unusual plot conception adds interest to the story, but its triumph is the integration of plot will the delineation of character and scene to achieve a unity of achievement uncommon in undergraduate literary effort. Ralph Bennett has contributed an excellent account of an everyday incident at a barley harvest. More a narrative essay than a short story, this episode gains from Bennett...