Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What happened, apparently, was that a Finnish anti-aircraft shell had caught the plane squarely and exploded its bomb load, blowing it to pieces." First detailed accounts of the tactics used by the Finns to wreck the Russian invasion at Suomussalmi reached the U. S. along with the first good pictures (see opposite page) of the battlefield. When two Russian divisions (the 163rd and 44th) occupied Suomussalmi in the early days of the war (TIME, Jan. 1), the Finns had only two companies to oppose them. The Finns, aided by their network of railways, quickly brought up reinforcements from...
...ultimate possibilities of the precedent are much bigger. If I. C. C. authorizes a rate that gets blackstrap out of barges, it may also fix similar rates for iron ore, lumber, coal, sugar, cottonseed oil - and a rate that keeps oil out of pipelines. At I. C. C. hearing Shell Oil Co., Inc. (subsidiary of Shell Union Oil Corp. with millions of dollars invested in pipelines) argued against trainload rates. Biggest squawk may come from roads which fear barge competition less than price-cutting...
...Montevideo, enthusiastic native thousands pressed through a police cordon to get a good look at Ajax's two smashed gun turrets, to mend which she must go home to Britain. They goggled at the gap where a German shell tore through the cabin of Commodore (now Rear Admiral and Sir) Henry Harwood, smashed his bathroom, wiped out his wardrobe...
...tool of mathematics but a tool of war is the is-was. It is an instrument which, given the data on where an enemy ship is, and where it was, can determine where it will be when the next shell hits. An apter name would be is-was-will...
Starting on Christmas Eve, Finland's gulf seaport of Viipuri, ten miles behind the Mannerheim Line, was treated to a demonstration more melodramatic than lethal: long-range shelling by a battery of Russian "Little Berthas" about 25 miles away. Duds proved the guns to be 8-inchers, firing presumably at a main railroad supply line to the Mannerheim positions, but hitting the city and its suburbs indiscriminately. One shell knocked a top corner off evacuated Viipuri's one hotel, the Knut Posse*, in which numerous foreign correspondents were huddled...