Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beach this morning I saw at least 50 men still fighting despite their wounds. Captain William Ketcham, commanding Company I in Vandegrift's battalion, was nicked in the arm and leg by snipers' bullets, but was merely contemptuous of the Japs' aim: "Shot at me twelve times and barely broke the skin with two bullets," said he. This battalion, in its brief periods in the front line, has had more than 100 casualties (mostly wounded). As it prepared to attack again today, Vandegrift cautioned his men: "Sniper fire gets very hot around here-better keep down...
...another notable step toward bringing the Navy's public relations up to its fighting arm's high standards. As short a time ago as the Saipan and Guam invasions, all on-the-spot reporting had to trickle back by courier to Pearl Harbor, which meant it got to the U.S. eight to fourteen days late. Then the Navy yielded to press complaints, sent censors along with its forward units. Finally, at Palau, news was filed directly from an admiral's flagship as soon as radio silence could be broken. Iwo Jima's press arrangements were better...
Once it seemed that old Referee Misfortune was always putting him in the penalty box. As Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard made his way up from the kid rinks of Montreal to the pro Canadiens, he first broke a leg, then an arm, then a leg. Now the Canadiens' freak left-handed right wing, he has shed his bad luck but kept his knack for breaking things. This week he broke the National Hockey League's goal-scoring record...
Other, almost incredible, examples crowded the Committee's reports. While one arm of the Government tried to dispose of 31,000,000 surgical dressings recently, another agency called loudly for 47,000,000 of the same dressings. Unfortunately, they could not hear each other. Spurred to crackdown action last week, the Mead Committee wanted to know why. Said Chairman Mead, warning agencies to get their faces ready for future, painful scrutiny...
...pact ended in 1934 (although the A.P. still trades its U.S. news for Reuters' foreign coverage). In the ten years since then, Reuters has acquired only 32 U.S. clients, got only as far inland as Chicago. One handicap: the wide suspicion that Reuters is a semi-official propaganda arm of the British Government. To combat this impression, Reuters took ads in U.S. trade papers to prove that it is a cooperative like the A.P., owned by British newspapers...