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...bloodiest beach in U.S. history, and sharp-eyed Bob Sherrod has recreated it in a sharply etched picture. More than that, his book records the simple, human qualities of the fighting Marines. Sherrod watched them give away their last drops of precious drinking water to wounded men, saw them in the thick of battle giving away their last cigarets and bulging out the empty packs so their buddies wouldn't suspect it was the last one. They joked incessantly. In the face of whistling sniper-fire one boyish Marine was seen dashing madly across the beach-he was chasing...
Late winter frosts swept over the Eastern Front, hardened sodden roads and swamps, dusted the battlefield with snow. Red Armies pushed forward hard. Time was precious. In another three or four weeks spring would lay its warm, sticky hand upon this land...
...cared much if they had been left to crawl home on their tanned hands & knees. But their pressure on Florida's railroads, hotels and natives was getting dangerous. The railroads estimated that the 150,000-odd civilians trying for Pullman space would take three months to move unless precious extra trains were put on. Meanwhile, those-who-sacrificed-least jammed Miami and Palm Beach hotels, refusing to move out for new comers. The newcomers spilled over into private houses, used up precious gas and tires chartering cabs to nearby cities not quite so overrun...
...Americans know Superman and Mickey Mouse, Germans know Kohlenklau (Coal Pincher), a funny-looking but evil kobold. His creator, egg-bald Berlin Cartoonist Hans Landwehrmann, endowed him with a bushy walrus mustache, a saucy apache cap. The little robber carries a huge thief's sack, crams into it precious fuel and food wasted by careless Germans...
...mile international section of the river between El Paso and Brownsville is sometimes only a chain of puddles, sometimes a roaring flood which pours precious water into the Gulf. If this excess water could be used for irrigation throughout the year, it would add perhaps a million acres of rich agricultural land to both the U.S. and Mexico, bring to reality a project long discussed by both...