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...power will be cut-from 15,550 to 14,000. Machine-gun equipment will go up from 282 to 465, cannon (75s, 105s and 155s) from 48 to 66. Ten armored scout cars will be added to the 16 now in the reconnaissance troop. Fifty-two light and 54 medium tanks will be added to blast a way for the Fourth's infantrymen, who will ride to battle in halftrack caterpillar troop carriers...
Railroad men blasted the Seaway from every side. Their main fear: loss of profitable petroleum, coal and automobile traffic (on the assumption that a new transport medium will divert more traffic than it will generate). Last week an 85-year-old pro-Seaway lobbyist (for Minnesota) named J. Adam Bede, who was a Congressman in 1903-09, remarked: "Aw, I've heard all this before. ... I remember when the railroad people testified that the transcontinental rails would turn to rust if we built the Panama Canal." But like the Panama Canal, the Seaway would cut transportation costs. Proponents have...
Like infuriated hippos Kidwell's tanks plowed ahead. Forty feet from the antitank gun they burst out of the woods, a medium and two lights-rearing on their hind treads as they cracked through the fence and crossed the road. The gun crew swung their piece, first on one, then on another. In battle they would not have had a chance. They were ruled out of action...
John Grierson took this impression of the U.S. press back to England and put it to work. Documentary films, not newspapers, were his medium. By dramatizing the actual workings of a complicated world, these one-to-three-reel shorts would help make Englishmen better citizens by acquainting them with the tasks of England and the Empire...
...tried to make headway. There is every reason to claim that jazz is the Negro's own artistic achievement. In every form of artistic expression there is an occasional Langston Hughes or Paul Robeson or Richard Wright, but in jazz the Negro comes into his own in a medium he himself invented and developed...