Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What changes the Germans have added to such fundamental procedure the Germans are keeping to themselves. One possibility is that they have done away with the bomb-release button, use a photoelectric cell built into the sight to drop the bombs when the sight is on the target. Purpose of mechanical dropping is to avoid a lapse sometimes as long as one-fifth of a second between the time a bombardier sights the target and the time his mind has telegraphed the button-pushing impulse to his fingers. Split seconds in the releasing operation make yards of difference...
...place or extent of air-raid damage; don't trust enemy broadcasts and don't discuss them with others; if you know somebody who makes a habit of causing worry and anxiety by passing on rumor, tell the police; if it's true, the enemy can use it-if it's not true, the enemy is using...
...doctrines have had plenty of practical proof, mostly by the Germans, and most recently in the perfectly coordinated Nazi assaults on Poland, Norway, the Low Countries, France. Nerve-centre of the U. S. Army is its General Staff, organized in its present form in 1903 (along plans already in use in the German Army) and first war-tried in 1917. The Chief of Staff is top ranker of the Army in peacetime but likely to be topped in war (as he was in 1917-18) by the field commander of the armies. Function of the Chief of Staff: under...
...Fifth division of the staff is the War Plans Division. Its job: making plans for use of the Army in war, making estimates of the size of the Army needed for any wartime situation. W. P. D.'s top man is longheaded, ambassadorial George Veazey Strong. Like Sherman Miles, he has been as much an Army diplomat as a field soldier, is as much at home in Geneva as he is in Washington. Cavalryman to start, George Strong fought Ute Indians in the West, Moros in the Philippines, went to Tokyo in 1908 as military attache...
...street. For Maestro John, Cage they are the medium of a rich and exciting fine art, shot through with potentialities. Purpose of his music, explains Cage, is the exploration of sounds and rhythms which were previously considered nonmusical. He hopes some day to make use of electrical instruments capable of playing sliding tones, get any desired sounds in any desired rhythm. For the present, Percussionist Cage contents himself with "dragons' mouths," wood blocks, rice bowls hit with chopsticks, temple gongs, pipe lengths, secondhand brake drums, baby rattles, maracas, wind glass, thunder sheets, washboards, cowbells, "fin-gersnaps & footstomps," flower pots...