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...ancient U.S. hull. Around her, the motor gunboats and torpedo boats whined and sputtered. Above her. R.A.F. bombers roared and pounded. From the shore two powerful searchlights sought her out, and as the land batteries cut loose with furious cross-fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every side. Before her explosive-laden bow piled into the dock gates of St.-Nazaire, she had sunk a Nazi flak* ship, stung many a shore battery with...
With Cyprus taken, the oil-hungry Axis would be almost at the mouth of the Haifa and Tripoli oil pipelines, within easy striking range of Allied land forces, spread thin along the northern rim of Africa. Only Cyprus stood in the way of such an eastern pincers movement...
Classic technique of oldtime tooth straightening was to bring the teeth into line by main force, with heavy plates or bands that pressured them gradually forward or back. The bands, tightened once or twice a week, stayed on for painful years. More recent methods use thin wires which are passed through light bands cemented to individual teeth, giving a gentler pressure...
Since Pearl Harbor, the U.S. has made herculean efforts to conserve burlap, to get in as much more as its thin line of groaning ships can bring. By Government order, two-thirds of all burlap is earmarked for military needs, the other third for essential farm needs. Non-essential users, like carpet and furniture makers, have been denied any burlap at all. Yet U.S. warehouse stocks are now less than a third of consumption in a good year; Calcutta stocks (if the U.S. can get them) are about the same...
General Stilwell is a soldier's officer, whose one passion is leading and training troops. His mouth is thin, his face hard and decisive beneath greying black hair. Fast of foot and mind, General Stilwell is forever barking: "Yah-Yah!" when his thoughts leap ahead of a companion's words. When they jump far ahead, he barks in triplicate...