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Apparently the British released torpedoes at point-blank range and followed up with gunfire. Somehow in the darkness, with radio locators or searchlights, they spotted every ship in the convoy. They sank nine and left the tenth, a tanker, blazing fiercely. For good measure they sent down (by Italian admission) two enemy destroyers. Presumably the Italian cruisers, fearful that a British battleship was near by, turned tail and fled. The entire British squadron got back to Malta unscathed...
...tank plant at Berwick, Pa. A.C.F. showed off its new, remarkably tough 1-inch tank armor by firing 37-mm. shells into sample plates. The shells used in the tests had extra-heavy charges of explosives, but were fired from a standard 37-mm. anti-tank gun at the point-blank range of 100 yards. From A.C.F. armor placed at a sloping angle to the line of fire, the shells bounced without making a dent. When they were fired smack into plates at a flat right-angle to the gun, the shells penetrated the first layer of armor, stuck harmlessly...
...Brock hadn't thought much about sketching in Cairo; but he reported last week from Budapest that the more he talked with talkative German soldiers the more certain he was that the Nazi machine would aim point-blank at Cairo and the Suez Canal very soon. Making the most of his talent for getting around, Correspondent Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal...
...Kinahan and other British diplomats had no idea what an understatement "unfortunate incident" was. El-Gailani's reply to Sir Kinahan's warning was to send more troops to the heights, where they dug trenches, placed artillery and opened fire point-blank on the Habbania field. The British, though badly outnumbered, replied. The Iraqi claimed destroying 26 planes on the ground, but other planes took off and bombed the Iraqi guns. The same day the British in Basra warned the Iraqi troops there to withdraw. They agreed to, but did not. The British seized the Basra airport, dock...
...orders in the air, most U. S. businessmen hesitated to expand their plant & equipment. Scores of manufacturers were worried about what the 1940 tax score would be, hung around the Army and Navy grousing. "S. A.," ingenuously, went to the Treasury instead. He asked the Treasury's lawyers point-blank if they knew what the new investment write-off tax schedule would be, was told they did not. His ears full of other men's groans, Guiberson then asked whether that meant he could not bid on Army tank engines. Assured there was no law against his bidding...