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...barren steppes behind the Ural Mountains more than a decade ago Soviet workers wrested a city of iron: Magnitogorsk. They paid for it with blood and sweat and countless rubles. They built it with modern tools and with their naked hands, and they are still building it today. The reward for them, and for those who built other great industrial centers in the Urals, was nothing less than the salvation of their country from the Germans...
...Guadalcanal Diary" is a good film, probably the best war film that has appeared. That statement needs, no qualification. Twentieth Century Fox's picture is really almost a document of the forceful realities involved in taking the Solomon Islands. The heat, the sweat, the tenseness before the landing, the mud and rain, the enemy, and the death...
...typical escort mission Cummings' crew chiefs readied their Thunderbolts before dawn. Then the muddy-floored briefing room filled with leather-jacketed pilots. They listened to Wild Bill's parting advice on the flight plan and tactics, took off. The crew chiefs gathered around the loudspeaker to "sweat out" their pilots and planes...
...seafaring Thomas Dover, who (circa 1730) combined to an unusual degree the callings of doctor and pirate. Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever. He prescribed a powder with opium (to make symptoms subside) and ipecac (to make a patient sweat and give him "a sense of progress...
...landing: almost 1,000 tons of aerial bombs, plus 1.500 tons of shellfire, on Betio's crowded, scant square mile (see cut). But they could not be sure that even this tremendous pre-landing bombardment would wreck the defenses built by the Japs. On the night before battle, sweat-drenched men packed the wardroom, spilled into the passageways to pray with their chaplains...