The hull was redesigned with welded, sloped armour and featured a partially cast turret mounting the highly regarded 17 pounder main gun and a 20 mm Polsten cannon.

By this point the usefulness of the 20 mm Polsten had been called into question, it being unnecessarily large for a man-killing weapon, so it was replaced with a Besa machine gun in a completely cast turret.

Many of the British LVT versions were armed with a Polsten 20 mm cannon and 2 ×. 30 cal Browning machine guns.

That brings its per-year cost down mighty low.

The major gets the assured gallonage for the life of the lease and the distributor apparently can do well because delivery cost is low.

Acceptance of radiopasteurization is likely to be delayed, however, for two reasons: ( 1 ) the storage life of fresh chicken under refrigeration is becoming a minimal problem because of constantly improved sanitation and distributing practices, and ( 2 ) treatment by antibiotics, a measure already approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, serves to extend the storage life of chicken at a low cost of about 0.5 cents per pound.

The low cost and ease of fabrication of the dies for three-dimensional foam cutting plus the wide variety of shapes, dimensions, and contours that can be tailor-made to customer requirements has made the technique useful for producing case liners, materials handling containers, packaging and cushioning devices, and such novelties as soap dishes, toys, head rests, arch supports, and gas pedal covers.

Hemphill said that the Hughes Steel Erection Co. contracted to do the work at an impossibly low cost with a bid that was far less than the `` legitimate '' bids of competing contractors.

He signed the Homestead Act in 1862, making millions of acres of government-held land in the West available for purchase at very low cost.

Mass production via assembly lines is widely considered to be the catalyst which initiated the modern consumer culture by making possible low unit cost for manufactured goods.

While owning steel works, Carnegie had purchased at low cost the most valuable of the iron ore fields around Lake Superior.

Though cloning is still possible even with digital technologies, the cost of wireless service is so low that the problem has virtually disappeared.

Bridges employing only compression are relatively inefficient structurally, but may be highly cost efficient where suitable materials are available near the site and the cost of labor is low.

On the supply side, Brazil's arms exports were designed for developing world markets and were noted for their high quality, easy maintenance, good performance in adverse conditions, and low cost.

Barges are used today for low-value bulk items, as the cost of hauling goods by barge is very low.

The resulting genetically engineered bacterium enabled the production of vast quantities of synthetic human insulin at relatively low cost.

Ballpoint pens, due to their low cost and ubiquity, are the most widely used pen to date.

Because ballpoint pens are low cost alternatives to both fountain pens and roller-ball pens, they have become largely a disposable product.

Ballpoint pens are often provided free by businesses as a form of advertising — printed with a company's name ; a ballpoint pen is a relatively low cost advertisement that is highly effective ( customers will use, and therefore see, a pen daily ).

Another choice, hickory wood, seems to have a very good blend of hardness and impact resistance, while still having a relatively low cost.

" Lomborg claims to have consistently supported the position that global warming exists, but cost benefit analyses, as calculated by the Copenhagen Consensus ranked climate mitigation initiatives low on a list of international development initiatives when first done in 2004.

It is also being considered to revitalize the Pula Airport ( Istria ) as a destination for low cost airlines.

Currently, the following low cost airlines are flying to Croatia: EasyJet, Flyglobespan, Germanwings, TUIfly, Ryanair, Thomson and Wizz Air.

The overheads of the contact centre are shared by many clients thereby supporting a very cost effective model especially for low volumes of calls.

The silicon cost of an 8051 is now as low as US $ 0. 001, because some implementations use as few as 2, 200 logic gates and take 0. 0127 square millimeters of silicon.

Cattle in the United States are often fed chicken litter due to the high amount of protein and low cost of the feed versus other sources of protein.

However, the PDP-6 proved to be a " hard sell " with customers, as it offered few advantages over similar machines from the better established vendors like IBM or Honeywell, in spite of its low cost around $ 300, 000.

A Massachusetts soldier, who seems to have been a Civil War version of Bill Mauldin, wrote: `` the officers consider themselves as made of a different material from the low fellows in the ranks.

Some engines also use cast iron crankshafts for low output versions while the more expensive high output version use forged steel.

** Ice milk, low = fat version of ice cream

An alternative to the version of " unbiased " above, is " median-unbiased ", where the median of the distribution of estimates agrees with the true value ; thus, in the long run half the estimates will be too low and half too high.

This version also has four-player split-screen cooperative and deathmatch options, although they must be played in low detail mode.

In 1988, Intel introduced the i386SX, a low cost version of the 80386 with a 16-bit data bus.

PIP with a very low baud rate ( because it had no built-in error correction ) could be used to transfer a small simple version of Kermit from one machine to another over a null modem cable, or failing that, a very very simple version of the Kermit protocol could be hand coded in binary in less than 2K using DDT, the CP / M Dynamic Debugging Tool.

The most recent version of LORAN in use is LORAN-C, which operates in the low frequency ( LF ) portion of the radio spectrum from 90 to 110 Kilohertz.

The 68LC040 is a low cost version of the Motorola 68040 microprocessor with no FPU.

The Australian market version was only one with different horsepower rating at 300 PS ( 221 kW / 296 hp ) due to preparation for possible low grade fuel.

This modified version of the series was canceled after ten episodes due to " low ratings ".

In the 1950s negative impedance gain devices were more popular, and a transistorized version called the E6 repeater was the final major type used in the Bell System before the low cost of digital transmission made all voiceband repeaters obsolete.

In some countries, like the Netherlands or Germany, it is possible to use a stripped version of X. 25 via the D-channel of an ISDN-2 ( or ISDN BRI ) connection for low volume applications such as point-of-sale terminals ; but, the future of this service in the Netherlands is uncertain.

The partnership lasted for six years with the model marketed as the Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, a 32-note version with only the low range of the piano, accounting for the bulk of the sales.

Windows Media Player 11 includes the Windows Media Format 11 runtime which adds low bitrate support ( below 128 kbit / s for WMA Pro ), support for ripping music to WMA Pro 10 and updates the original WMA to version 9. 2.

An inline link may display a modified version of the content ; for instance, instead of an image, a thumbnail, low resolution preview, cropped section, or magnified section may be shown.

The quantum Hall effect ( or integer quantum Hall effect ) is a quantum-mechanical version of the Hall effect, observed in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low temperatures and strong magnetic fields, in which the Hall conductivity σ takes on the quantized values

GAZ-72, a four-wheel drive version, was produced in low volume.

The video quality of the Avid / 1 ( and later Media Composer systems from the late 1980s ) was somewhat low ( about VHS quality ), due to the use of a very early version of a Motion JPEG ( M-JPEG ) codec.

* A UK version of the Weather Channel ran from September 1, 1996 to January 30, 1998, when it was closed due to low viewership.

After seeing low profits, Apple attempted to increase sales by bundling more software with the Cube, lowering the price of the base model, incorporating a CD-RW drive standard for the 500 MHz version, and offering an improved Nvidia graphics card as an option.

An additional version is wide and low.

With the advent of low flying cruise-missiles and high-altitude AA-missiles the flight profile was changed, but regained the interceptor profile with the final version J 35J.

Although the St Audrey's market petered out during centuries past, the tradition of low priced cloth, albeit of better quality, is now carried on with the modern market holders at the St Ives town centre version, which is still a draw to dress and curtain makers.