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Eager. In Charlotte, N.C., a draft board got a letter: "I have wrote the board two are three time for my paper and I have not heard them yet. I would love to know what in the hell is the meadow. I wish you would hurry and send for me to stand my examination for my hand is burnin to shuit a gun. Have you lost my wrecked are what I want, my class card, please. I am looking to hear it soon...
...Guadalcanal for his frontline chant: "Chewing gum, candy, popcorn, soda pop. What'll you have, boys?" Wandering about the jungle alone, Montgomery recently met a group of marines. Said he: "Aren't we pretty close to the front lines now, fellows?" Said a marine: "Front lines, hell. They're half a mile behind us. This is a patrol." Says Tiny Montgomery: "I ducked the bullets and watched them wipe out a machine-gun nest. I was glad to get back in one piece...
Under Zacharias the Salt Lake City took part in the first offensive U.S. action of the war by shelling Wotje in the Marshalls. Three weeks later old Swayback poured avenging hell into Wake, then went on to Marcus Island, only 1,000 miles from Tokyo, to protect a carrier whose planes set the Japs to jittering in their own backyard...
...much money in the banks, combined with too few consumer goods on the market, spells out inflation. And if the U.S. public should try to cash in its big deposits for goods with the same energy with which it attempted in 1933 to switch into cash, all hell would break loose. Said one banker this week: "The tinder is there, the fire may follow...
...Dutch civilians were stolidly restrained. "They were as mad as hell. I have seen some of those fellows just raging mad. They just sit at home and wish that they could get going, but then they feel, 'What the hell? We can't do anything.' You are just absolutely bound." The Dutchmen were biding their time...