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...clean - "like a show place and I couldn't enjoy it." Arsenal. In Des Moines, Robert Butterworth was arrested by police and given a routine shakedown, which revealed that he was harboring on his person: 20 paint brushes, 60 pens and pencils, 17 combs, 50 ft. of rope, a quart of sauerkraut, 5 Ib. of sugar, 3 Ib. of wieners, a gross of used toothpicks, four flashlights, a hammer, six knives, a grindstone, a tube of shaving cream and four putty knives. He was charged with "maintaining a fire hazard." Only Yesterday. In Toledo, Ore., a merchant discovered that...
...those early hours Rangers had gone ashore in LCTs under cover of darkness. At one point, atop a 200-ft. cliff, were six 155-mm. guns which could sweep the sea approaches. The Rangers shot a grappling hook to the top of the cliff. One of them climbed a rope hand over hand, carrying rope ladders which he made se cure. Up swarmed the Rangers; took the gun positions, knocked them out with TNT. Infantry. On the heels of the demolition units went the infantry. It was not announced which divisions were in the first wave, but two U.S. divisions...
...with his top naval chiefs, British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. Then Ground Forces Commander General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery came aboard, in his favorite battle dress of fleece-lined jacket and corduroy trousers. After Monty had made his report he swung down a rope ladder to his launch, and looked up again, sharp-nosed, grinning, jaunty. Looking down at the great little soldier who, more than anyone, now carried the fate of the invasion in his thin hands, "Ike" gave him a thumbs-up and shouted: "Good luck...
When the decrepit old highway petered out, the party left its de luxe Dodge busses, mounted little horses and rode to a promontory above the mighty Yellow River, sunk in its age-old canyon. They crossed the swift waters on the rope planks of a swaying, weathered suspension bridge, climbed the winding trail beyond to Kenanpo in Shansi, perched like a feudal castle on a cave-pocked cliff...
...Chungking Government has stepped up production from the ancient salt wells of inland Szechwan. Free China had little iron or steel to spare for this vital industry. Her engineers turned to the ways and the tools of their forebears. They fashioned derricks and drills from lashed timbers. They wove rope from split bamboo. For pipelines, snaking over the land from well to refinery, they used the hollow trunk of the bamboo...