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Show 1 The "Stovepipo," as the 60-millI-i meter trench mortar is commonly i known, is. used, by our infantry for : close-in fighting. It fires a 2.4-pound : shell at the rate of about 35 a :minute. to send I his bomber to war. It's been estimated that about 12,000 local and long distance calls are involved in-volved in the production of a bomber. Millions of war calls are on the wires today. Please keep lines free for those calls by keeping your conversations brief and by not making any unnecessary calls. THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. i rhe mortar fires its projectile in U-shaped arc and for this reason lay be successfully camouflaged ;ehind an obstruction. It costs about 3500. You and your neighbors, joining join-ing together, can buy many of these cilective weapons for use of our army. Investing at least ten percent per-cent of your income in War Bonds every payday will do the job. Get on the firing line on the home front . . join the "Ten Percent Club." U. S. Treasury Department |