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Last year the team won seven of its eleven matches, and Manager Jim Beverly '47 forecasts even better results for the coming season. "With the added incentive of rifles now owned by the club, and nearly twice the ammo available, and with a good turn-out at our meetings, we should rank much higher in the matches-won percentage column," he said...
...Toxic ammo of the anti-fly movement is good new DDT, which will be sprayed on cattle, barns, downtown restaurants, garbage pails, old-fashioned outhouses. But the state authorities warn that DDT alone will not make Iowa flyless. Flies breed in any sort of decaying organic matter. Eggs hatch and adult flies develop in about eight days. DDT will kill flies, but only strict sanitation will keep the fly reserves from mounting a counteroffensive...
Nerve Center. A few dirt roads had once meandered through Guam's hills. Now three-and four-lane paved highways laced the island, leading from harbor to cold-storage plants, asphalt works and ammo dumps. Spread across the island were neat tent cities where marines lived between campaigns, rest camps where submarine crews breathed the fresh smell of jungles, recreation centers where Navymen played baseball, drank strictly rationed beer. Four Fleet and three Army hospitals could accommodate nearly 10,000 patients, and back & forth along the asphalt highways roll caravans of khaki ambulances with their pitiful loads...
They tackled the first warehouse, "trying it for size." It went very well. Ammo cans sizzled and pup-pupped, flames licked heavenward. They fused the second warehouse. Mortar shells began whistling around them. Amid explosion and fire Gleason's furies danced, hugging their TNT as they ran. With gasoline, alcohol and straw they fed the holocaust...
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