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...place is dank, dismal, depressing. Stacks of grey, fungus-covered piling loom like ghostly sentries, a huge, muddy filled-in ditch resembles the caved-in moat of a deserted castle. A few workmen slowly dismantle a partly built railroad; now & then a grey-clad Louisiana State patrolman plods his lonely beat...
...green uniforms, Japanese troops moved over the "impenetrable" Owen Stanley mountains. In the great equatorial-rain forests' "battle of lungs" the Japs had the advantage against Australian troops (accustomed to a dry desert climate). Wearily the Australians and some U.S. service troops (engineers, etc.) prepared for a last-ditch stand. The fighting was so fierce that "no prisoners have been taken yet." Australians said the Japs killed their own wounded, played "possum" among dead soldiers and rose up to throw hand grenades...
Clanking over the rolling plain at 25 to 30 miles an hour, the tank has the motion of a small sailboat in choppy water. Every sudden encounter with a ditch or an arroyo knocks the crew against the steel walls, making them momentarily glad of their thick, hot helmets, which otherwise are instruments of torture in a desert that is on the average 10° hotter than Egypt...
Organizer of Standard's medical department is benign Yaleman Dr. Willard J. Denno, 67, who first came to the company in 1918. He was soon joined by Dr. Alvin Schoenleber, 58, who learned tropical medical problems in Panama while the Big Ditch was being dug. When these two began their work, industrial medicine had a bad name. Only medical misfits went into the field. Largely through the efforts of Drs. Denno and Schoenleber, industrial medicine now attracts first-class doctors from all over...
...Moore was with the Japanese Embassy in Washington through the last desperate months before Pearl Harbor. In the summer of 1941 he had believed he could do nothing to restore Japanese-American relations, and told Ambassador Nomura so. But Nomura insisted that he stay. "We are in the last ditch," he admitted, "but we must continue the struggle anyway...