Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then, as the eight took a brisk workout down to the Riverside Boat Club, his method of handling an eight became vividly evident. As Bolles turned his interest from one part of the shell to another, he used one part of the shell it another, he used the searchlight with which his coaching launch is equipped to advantage, stopping at one man for a moment, moving on to another, sweeping back to the rudder post to see what "check" the shell was developing, and then back again to the eight be-sweatered sweepswingers...
Today Ordnance's big job is production -in which it has had the yeoman help of U.S. business. One of the outstanding jobs of U.S. defense is Ordnance's building of a great powder, shot & shell industry (TIME, Oct. 20). But Ordnance was not ready with prepared designs of modern weapons for industry to manufacture. To meet World War II, it had no outstand ing tank models. It had developed no outstanding artillery piece. The one weapon peculiar to the U.S. Army that it developed was an infantry piece: the semiautomatic Garand rifle...
...conceded that the 75 had too flat a trajectory, threw too light a slug. Ordnance had an able substitute in the 105-mm. howitzer, which it had planned as a supplementary weapon. When the 105-mm. finally became the standard field artillery piece, it meant a revolution in the shell-as well as artillery-production program. The Army is only now getting the first...
Thursday. The churchmen rise in protest. Father Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown University, onetime papal envoy in Russia, says the Soviet Constitution "guarantees nothing but a hollow shell of religious freedom." Methodist Bishop Raymond J. Wade of Detroit, former bishop of the Russian area, says: "Undisputed imprisonment and slaying of tens of thousands of priests . . . together with thousands of closed churches, speak louder than printed words...
...alter the prospect of shortage. Many a publisher, aware of the notorious excess capacity of newsprint mills, has been lulled into a false sense of security. But under defense pressure mills have begun turning pulp into products which they never dreamed of, even laminating newsprint into special paperboard for shell boxes. Before many months it seems certain that the U.S. press will have to take in its belt...