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...Voyage of Their Life. Undeservedly, the Japanese had one more chance on better than even terms. It was in the bloody, long-drawn struggle for Guadalcanal. The Allies were reduced to two carriers and two modern battleships; the enemy had at least four times this strength. But on the night of Nov. 12-13, he sent a boy-sized task force to do a man's job; two nights later he repeated the error. In those engagements, the ancient battleships Hiei and Kirisima plunged into Iron-Bottom...
...Weighed with their gold, men sank like stone or struggled vainly, for a moment, in a tangle of baggage and bodies. Horses rolled from the embankment on top of them; while on either side of the breach the relentless canoes plied spears and clubs and arrows. A long-drawn scream rose from the water. . . . The causeway had become a solid writhing of agonized life fighting for itself...
Persistent Spain. Long-drawn, indecisive talks with slippery little Caudillo Francisco Franco made no visible progress despite recent misinformation to the contrary. Already cut off from U.S. oil, Spain seized Anglo-U.S. oil stocks in Tetuán, Spanish Morocco, on the pretext that Spanish taxes had not been paid. The U.S. and Britain protested, but Spanish tungsten continued to flow into Germany for high-speed tools and armor-piercing shells...
Fans cheered and applauded Flynn's first appearance on the screen. Later, when he murmured dreamily of the Girl Back Home, they gave the wolf cry-a long-drawn woooo-woooo-ooo! When Flynn offered a fellow pilot "a few good telephone numbers," the house broke into a dionysiad of whistles, wolf calls, boos, belly laughter. This was not only true of San Francisco: at the end of many a showing of Desperate Journey, cinemaudiences have endorsed Cinemactor Flynn with loud & long applause. Probably unnecessary, in fact, is Warner Bros.' already famed deletion-from the Desperate Journey trailer...
...price of copper went to 16?. Phelps Dodge dusted off long-drawn openpit plans, issued $28,000,000 in convertible 3½% debentures, began moving the 46,000,000-ton mountaintop...