Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Champion Paper & Fibre made newsprint from Southern pine, and Dow Chemical extracted magnesium from the sea water that laps Freeport, Tex. What may yet prove the year's most useful discovery was less romantic: at South Bend, Studebaker was testing out a turret-lathe that could turn one shell a minute...
Near Ashland, Wis., Evelyn Kramer took a shot at a buck. It didn't move a step. Hastily she rammed in another shell, pulled the trigger, got no report. By the time she had opened the breech and extracted her lipstick case from the shell chamber, the buck had dropped - dead from the first shot...
...Italians said (and took correspondents to a naval base to prove) that only their heavy cruiser Fiume was hit (by one shell-which did not explode), and the destroyer Lanciere, which was badly hurt. Their 35,000-ton Vittorio Veneto outmaneuvered the torpedo planes, dodged their projectiles. Meantime their guns and planes smacked one British battleship, three cruisers and the Ark Royal. In the air they claimed 13 British planes shot down to two Italians (the British said two Italians, one British...
Later the Italians sent destroyers to shell Samos, announced that an "invasion" of the Dodecanese had been successfully repelled...
...freight-rate differentials against Birmingham were abolished, and Birmingham, whose pig iron is $4.83 a ton cheaper than Pittsburgh's, got a green light to expand. Defense has hastened the process. Purely defense backlogs for the area total at least $90,000,000, include $8,000,000 shell contracts let last week, $32,400,000 for four destroyers in its shipyards, $23,500,000 for Reynolds Metals' aluminum plant. Though four Birmingham companies have had educational shell orders for a year and a half, so far not a single shell has left town. Reason: they...