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...from the Hood, and 14-in. shells from the Prince of Wales and King George V; three torpedoes launched from aircraft, two from destroyers, one from a battleship and three from cruisers; and about three hundred 8-in. shells, 4.7-in. shells and other small stuff. PArtly this wonderful shock-worthiness was due to her thick, modern alloy-steel armor, partly to an intricate system of cellular compartments, "blisters," "torpedo bulkheads" - all contributing to her great 118-ft. beam and calculated to isolate and minimize each hole in her skin. But the crew's faith in her buoyancy...
...beyond predicting general priorities on steel. Next day priorities came. OPM's Stettinius announced that he and OPACS's Leon Henderson would allocate 75% of steel production (the share not now going to defense and Britain) among competing civilian needs. Graceful living was clearly due for another shock...
There were certain observable German tactics which would probably not be varied much in an assault on either Britain or Ireland: dependence on night cover for the first shock attacks, the use of gliders mainly for initial surprise (because of their ability to land silently on the sea by night), the lack of mechanized and motorized equipment at least during the first phase of the operation. The principal lesson of the attack was the extent to which the invaders depended upon airborne assault alone, and the time it was able to maintain itself unsupported from...
Battery practice resulted in nothing more than a shock for the Mount Auburn Street humorists when they discovered that Prexy Coles Phinizy, slated to take the mound Thursday when the two teams meet in their annual jeu de baseball (Fr.), didn't know how to use resin or cut plug and had never heard...
Famed Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson of Boston declared last week that he successfully used electric shocks for 40 cases of early depression. Dr. Lauren Howe Smith and colleagues of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital claimed that electric shock calmed noisy patients in the wards cut their length of stay in half...