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River Crossing. Two other trainees had been knocked about that morning as the same company made a river-crossing on a toggle-rope bridge while bombs exploded near by in the water. One bomb blew an officer into the water, knocked him senseless for a few moments. It also caught another in the water, sent him to a hospital...
...crossing was made after two trainees had swum the icy, 100-ft. stream carrying a pioneer towline. After landing they pulled across the rope bridge, tied it to trees. Then others of their company crept across while machine guns, bombs and mines simulated battle conditions...
Blitz Course. Toughest exercise of all was the 500-yd. blitz course which each trainee must travel alone. First he must vault a fence, then scale an 8-ft. wall, climb another fence, swing across a creek on a hanging rope. As he lands, a dummy Jap pops from behind a tree and must be bayoneted. As the trainee crosses a log another Jap drops near him and must be shot from the hip. Beyond various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready...
...crops is hemp, which will be grown this year on 350,000 acres in the midwest. To prepare for the new crop some 35,000 acres of hemp were grown in Kentucky and harvested for seed last year. For processing the hemp into badly needed ships' rope the Department of Agriculture is financing the construction of 71 midwest factories. Hemp was a big U.S. staple even before the Revolution, was used for homespun garments, twine, sacking, rigging, cables, hangmen's nooses. But foreign competition half century ago killed U.S. hemp production. Now Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard has listed...
...town "to destroy . . . anything ... of any value to the enemy." On the outskirts of the town they met an old peasant woman who offered to help them. They were suddenly attacked by two Germans, Fyodor drove his knife into the body of one; Sergei twisted a short piece of rope around the other's throat...