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Very much the worse for wear, the resident members of the Guadalcanal Press Club had seen and experienced more tough combat than any U.S. correspondents in World War II. Reporters on Bataan could recuperate in the rock caverns of Corregidor. On Guadalcanal, reporters' protection consisted solely of the fighting marines. Unlike many of their whip-corded, cane-carrying, limousine-borne forebears of World War I, Guadalcanal newspapermen literally become "fighting correspondents...
...Lord's Prayer?' We press him and he recites the prayer in a loud voice that fills the dugout above the noise of the guns and comforts us. We murmur 'Amen' when he is finished and sit in shocked silence while the earth continues to rock...
Last week out of Canada came increasing indications that this terrific strain on U.S. reserves- so severe that at the current rate the Mesabi may be gutted in twelve years-will be eased. For at Steep Rock Lake, 100 miles to the north, Canadians, with the help of U.S. capital and engineering, are preparing to exploit a little Mesabi of their own, rich in high-grade...
Existence of some such deposit was suspected ever since the Mesabi was opened up a half century ago. But it was not till 1930 that a prospector and scout, Jules G. Cross, made a survey of the region, which led to the formation of the Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. Backing the company is Cyrus Eaton, creator of Republic Steel, who is arranging a $7,500,000 bond issue...
...tough-as-leather assistant who lives on benzedrine, a hen-brained Southern girl, a vengeful English one, a onetime burlesque queen, a Brooklyn babe, an unconscious Lesbian. Under incessant gunfire, they grow jittery, wisecracking, quarrelsome, valiant. In the last tense scenes, as realistic bombs and anti-aircraft fire literally rock the theater and the audience, the Fifth Columnist holds the other girls at bay with a revolver after the shelter entrance is blocked. At the end the Japs drive them out of their shelter: a moment later comes the rat-tat-tat of machine guns...