Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spongy liberalism. The war and the Army seem to have stiffened his humanitarian fiber. Never a bossy boss, he leaves his assistants much to their own devices. He can well afford to-among the film virtuosi now under his command are Major Anatole Litvak, Major Anthony Veiller, and veteran cutter Captain William Hornbeck. Among their projects is a series of three films called Know Your Enemy, seven called Know Your Allies...
...clerk who had just flunked out of the Harvard supply school ... Ensign Drawers couldn't find anything in his specimens as to how to do six different things at the same time. The C. O.ordered pay day the next day for the crew, officers, and an attached coast guard cutter ... An armed guard crew was picked up floating into port with partial pay cards .. After their latest Ready, Aim, Fire, Abandon Ship episode ... He started spreading his specimens in the gangways and tacking them on the bulkheads ... Ensign Drawers began to tighten up ... He had to pull through ... After...
...diamond cutter sets his whirring wheel, dresses its edge with diamond dust and lubricant as it saws slowly into the big, water-clear crystal on the cutting stand. But the big crystal under the wheel is not a diamond. It is quartz, the most abundant of all minerals but a newly prized jewel of war. Once ground to size, it is the governor of ship, plane and tank communications, an indispensable monitor of the accuracy of range-finding instruments and fire-control devices...
...than 12,000 trained officers and men have been lost or taken prisoner; and crews are more difficult to replace than ships. The U.S., habitually mum on the subject of U-boat sinkings, last week revealed for the first time the capture of a submarine contingent: the Coast Guard cutter Icarus last June depth-charged a U-boat, blew it to the surface, rescued 33 of the crew. The shattered sub sank into the depths which German underseamen call "God's Cellar...
...searchlight bridge opens up now, and the wallowing hulk of the U-boat is clearly outlined in the glare. It shudders and rocks as the three-inch shells pour into it at the water line. Everybody on the cutter is yelling like a madman. Up forward you can see the Negro crew of number five gun, working like a machine, and grinning all the while. They throw the shells into the gun in a steady stream-the fastest gun crew on the cutter. And their lips move as they pour hot steel into the submarine. They're singing...