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...oldtimer in the tank business, but not on a big production scale, A. C. F. turned out its first twelve-ton machine on May 8-a snub-snouted monster armed with four .30-calibre machine guns, a .50-calibre machine gun for use against aircraft and a wicked-looking 37-rnm. (about 1½-inch) cannon. Since then the assembly line has turned them out with increasing regularity. A. C. F. drivers take the tanks for 40-m.p.h. trial runs, see that their Continental airplane-type engines function, bring them back to the shop for final adjustment down to close...
Sweltering hot though it is, with its beetling, sun-scorched Rock radiating heat all day, Gibraltar became hotter still last week. Italian bombers from bases 1,000 miles away repeatedly dropped monster explosions upon it. British warships in the anchorage on the Rock's west side were prime targets, the sea power that keeps Italy corked into the Mediterranean. The Italians claimed they hit and fired some of the ships. Watchers in Algeciras across the bay and in Tangier across the Strait could not tell, but they could see and hear the Rock erupt an inferno of anti-aircraft...
...Oran, reported his ships unscathed, and Spanish observers who saw them return to Gibraltar after two days at sea made no mention of visible damage. Yet, as usual, the Italians claimed to have hit the Ark Royal's bridge with two big bombs, to have set afire the monster Hood. All the British would admit was loss of the destroyer Escort by torpedoing...
...long hail from the ten-gun sailing galley of 1776 was Washington VI. The grey-black monster which smoked down the ways of the Philadelphia Navy Yard into the muddy Delaware River last week...
Hitler and Hitlerism must be destroyed. Either Hitlerism will destroy America or America will destroy Hitlerism. The whole American people should become regimented in the undivided purpose of destroying the Germanic monster. Hitler has preached the total war. Let him get it. It will spell total destruction for him. But we shall save America. Edward Holton James '96, --From a letter to the Boston Transcript...