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Tiny (letter-size) four page Guinea Gold is a newspaper in the most literal sense. It is rarely illustrated, never runs "pin-ups." Its readers, polled several months ago, thumbed down such gewgaws. They voted for war news first, political news from home second, educational features third. There are a few standard informational sections (movie schedules, lost & found, etc.). The rest of Guinea Gold is packed, seven days a week, with more than 100 solid news nuggets, many filched from short-wave broadcasts...
...Tarawa, Makin and Abemama, tiny pin points of coral and sand, Admiral Spruance's Marines and soldiers fought Japs for whom there was no line of retreat. But ahead of the Americans there was a pregnant line of advance-to the Marshalls, to the Japs' great naval-and-air center at Truk...
...throw gas shells, it can also handle high explosive shells for use against tanks, pillboxes and troop concentrations. Unlike other mortars, which are smoothbores, the 4.2 is rifled, has a range of two miles. Yet the shells slide straight in, without engaging the rifling. The sliding shell hits a pin in the mortar which sets it off. A disk at the base of the shell expands under pressure of the gases, engaging the rifling, thus imparting rotation to the shell...
Jinx Falkenburg, swore her Hollywood pressagent, was something more than a pin-up girl: students at an Army flight school (unnamed) had affixed her picture to planes in a really permanent way-she was the first rivet-up girl ever...
...Pins were also handmade, and cost about 15? apiece; as late as 1843 the U.S. Patent Office report called excited attention to a pin-making machine...