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...Japs grabbed a middle-aged storekeeper, according to Father Lebel, looped a rope around his neck and drew it down between his legs, forcing his head down to the level of his knees. "Then they made him trot along ahead of them, like some great clumsy dog on a leash. After they had gone about three miles, they got tired of the sport. One Japanese . . . took his sword and chopped off the man's head. Then all the Japanese casually sat down to lunch a few feet away...
...smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics. It can be grown easily almost anywhere, hence tends to be inexpensive, as drugs go. Its recent prices (10? to 50? a cigaret) have placed it beneath the dignity of big-time racketeers. But its furtive preparation and sale afford a modest living to thousands...
...Phillies are not a great ball club, perhaps not even a good one, according to peacetime standards. But Manager Harris is working wonders with the material at hand. No martinet, like the Pirates' Frankie Frisch or the Dodgers' Leo Durocher, he gives his players plenty of rope, never rides them, never drives them, plays no favorites...
...both sides of the glider, checking parachutes, barely got out in time. He lit running as the big 15-man glider, suddenly an amazingly skittish, lightfooted creature, lifted off the runway. To a glider novice the take-off was startling; we were airborne and climbing on the rope while the heavier tow plane was still soaring down the runway, picking up speed for its own takeoff. We climbed rapidly to 700 feet, circled to get into formation...
...Navy and the Merchant Marine must have rope made out of manila hemp; no other kind withstands salt and fresh water so hardily. Manila hemp comes from abaca, a plant much like the one bananas grow on. The U.S. got 98% of its pre-Pearl Harbor hemp from the Philippines. After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. grew enough hemp seed to enable it to plant 300-350,000 acres of ordinary hemp in 1943. These crops will satisfy all but marine hemp needs...