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...before movie cameras. With the precise delicacy of spider legs, the slender, giant cranes moved steadily on, lifting twelve-ton buckets of concrete to pour on the dam's western heights. "Dinky" skinners drove trains of concrete buckets over the sky-high trestle; tin-helmeted shove runners and gear-jammers, tools in their belts, plowed on with their job: to move 1,000,000 feet of dirt out of a slide area...
...over the U. S., manufacturing towns were changing overnight under the impact of orders for defense; in Army camps the first 128,000 drafted men were in training; the U. S. armament program was in second gear-and only the White House knew how well or how badly it was going. Beyond U. S. borders, beyond the Western Hemisphere, events hung in the balance from Ankara to the borders of Indo-China-but only the White House knew how greatly U. S. action could affect their outcome. The President had long, since stated to the U. S. the meaning...
...mast, which will fold back to allow passage under the bridges on the Charles, a long overhanging poop, a small motor hidden away in the stern, and a half-inch brass cannon mounted in the bow, will be features of the junk's gear...
...consists of a school of schooners, motorboats, whaleboats and dhows, manned for the most part by farmers and landlubbing natives from the interior who had never seen the sea before the war. But last week Kenya's Navy made up in gallantry for what it lacked in gear and seamanship. It embarked some Nigerian shock troops from a Kenya port, landed them efficiently in a mangrove swamp near the Italian Somaliland border. Marching all night through a deserted countryside, the Nigerians raided Ras Chiamboni, formerly an important base for Italian operations in Kenya but now nearly undefended. They burned...
...shattered fo'c'sle. men scrambled up on deck. Some, trapped below, drowned amid frozen fish, cluttered gear, shattered planking. After the crash, the schooner sheered off; the barge was swallowed up in the darkness. With the desperate hope of beaching his ship before she sank, Captain Fred Wilson swung her inshore. But the schooner was settling rapidly, nose down; the water was knee deep on the deck. The nested dories, welded together by ice, were useless. As their ship sank under them, Captain Wilson and the survivors swarmed up the icy rigging...