Time Clock, Nov. 2, 1953

CANNON big enough to knock down heavily armored enemy planes may soon replace the machine guns on U.S. Air Force jet fighters. The Air Force has given Buffalo Arms, Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y. the first contract ($4,000,000) for a new fast-firing, 30-mm. aircraft cannon whose projectile is nearly three times bigger than that now used in the .50-cal. machine guns.

A URANIUM rush is on in Wyoming. A strike in Fremont County, says the Atomic Energy Commission, seems to be the first "important new discovery" in the state.

GERMANY has passed the U.S. as...

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