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Control of the B-29's guns can be interchanged, passed around from gunner to gunner like a basketball and with split-second speed. Thirty different combinations of guns can be aimed and fired from different sighting stations. A gunner lets go control of his guns by simply dropping the firing switch. Another gunner can instantly pick up secondary control and bring his own and his colleague's guns to bear on a target...
Under the deal, Pan Am expects to split its 1,993,261 shares of common stock, two shares for one. Then, before June, it plans to offer stockholders the right to buy one share of stock near the market price for each two shares held, give them a warrant (option) to buy another share any time before...
Defense lawyers could, if they wanted, allow the trial to continue with a new judge. But few wanted this procedure. The Government had three alternatives: 1) pick a new judge and begin all over again; 2) split the defendants into small groups and try them separately; 3) forget the whole thing...
...adjustments in lining up the target through the crosshair sight turn the plane in the right direction by means of an automatic pilot. Everything else-the bombing plane's speed, altitude, wind drift, etc. is registered automatically. The bombsight even releases the bombs, at the right, split-second moment...
...plea. Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela had consented-and had had their faces slapped by the U.S. State Department, which wants no open hearing. Many Latin diplomats believe that the system of inter-American consultation has been done to death; that the Good Neighbors were deeply divided, would split into fragments. In this sense, Perón had won again...