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...doctrine which the British accepted last year, but did not put into effect in time for Libya and Egypt: that, above all else, tanks must have superior fire power. The Mark IVs main guns were better than anything in most of the British tanks. The British had many U.S. medium tanks ("General Grants") which theoretically outgunned even the Mark IVs. But the Grants had a serious fault: their main guns' limited field of fire...
Rescue Boat. Out on the wharf waited massive, balding Chairman Rosenthal and lean, nervy Chief Warden Hallett. Occasionally, when the breeze lifted the fog, they could see a medium-sized freighter at anchor a mile or so out in the harbor-the rescue ship. At about 8 o'clock, Dr. Daniel Hiebert, the Public Health Officer, went out to the ship in a Coast Guard boat, later called for Dr. Frank Cass to come out and lend a hand...
What the replies would allege in self-justification or palliation was anybody's guess, and guess everybody did. Buenos Aires newspapers sarcastically guessed that the German sub-commander had mistaken the sky-blue-&-white markings of nonbelligerent Argentina for the medium-blue-&-white markings of belligerent Honduras, that he had failed to perceive 4-ft.-high letters reading REP. ARGENTINA. Best guess was that Germany and Argentina would repeat the routine following the 1940 torpedoing of the Argentine merchantman Uruguay off the Spanish coast: Argentina protested; Germany's reply was accepted; neither was ever published...
...Best performance by an actress: Mildred Natwick as the bouncy medium in Blithe Spirit...
...fast enough to catch their quarry, can wheel about on their heels to follow the squirmings of U-boats below the surface. Their main weapon is the depth charge, to open the enemy's steel-laced seams. They carry a medium-size foredeck gun, a battery of anti-aircraft machine guns...