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...which incontestably record the immense clumsiness, the spurts of craziness, the human ordinariness of war. The soldiers who crowd a boat to cross the wintry Volga, when the action turns against the Germans, do not look like a turn in the tide of world history: they look like a pack of freezing immigrants. When whole fields of guns go off, the spasm of trees, the twitching of grasses, the shuddering of the soil indicate war's vast violation of nature...
...peace, the Queen Mary could accommodate 2,100 paying passengers. In war, she can pack 12-20,000 troops onto her decks, into salons and cabins stripped of luxury and into hold space which no peacetime sybarite ever saw. When German submarines were taking their highest toll, the Queen Mary relied on her speed to dash unescorted through and around their hunting grounds. Some of her 1942 highlights, as revealed by the British last week...
...steamed once, fully laden, through a pack of 25 submarines. Not one was able to train a torpedo...
...worth much in the back pack, dog-team and canoe economy of the north country. Soon Imperial capped its wells, laid low until 1932 when the radium and the later gold-mining push at Great Bear Lake and Yellowknife, and the advent of air communication, made a teakettle refinery at Norman Wells worth while. For ten years the half-pint plant was operated in the open-water season, closed down for the winter...
Examination by Practice. Eventually, cadets will be tossed a 40-lb. pack. They will be trucked off 30 or 40 miles, given a compass and told to find their way home...