Rocketoid bomb shelters

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Then there's the infamous yellow cake.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>
>Sent: May 11, 2007 6:05 AM
>To: 'Tore Rye Andersen' <torerye at hotmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: Rocketoid bomb shelters
>
>Tore wrote:
>
>> And while we're on the topic of sinister baked goods, check 
>> out this bit of 
>> information about the production and distribution of the V-2:
>> 
>> "Logistic changes under code name 'warme Semmel' (English: hot cakes) 
>> resulted in movement of V-2 trains directly from the 
>> Nordhausen plant to 
>> firing-unit railheads for field storage until operational 
>> batteries needed 
>> resupplied."
>
>Twelve years later, Khrushchev would boast that the USSR was producing ICBMs
>"like sausages." Man cannot die by bread alone.
>
>(BTW, I'm finishing a consulting job today, so monte.davis at bms.com is no
>longer valid.)
>
>