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Captain Ritchie Clark described the initial attack on the command post on the plateau: "The Japs would come at us yelling like Indians and our men would shoot them at 30 or 40 yd. Whenever one was wounded he would grab a grenade and blow himself up. There were about 200 of them up here and the Americans killed around 130 in that first charge. The other 70 came back Sunday morning and we were ready for them. They saw it was hopeless and began holding grenades against their stomachs and blowing their guts out. In all we lost about...
...will come out with "a monopoly which will dominate electric-power resources and the production of aluminum on the American continent and to a large extent throughout the world." The method of finance, he contends, makes the project a "virtual gift" to the aluminum interests, and "the greatest financial grab ever pulled off in . . . Canada." Shipshaw, insists he, must be seized by the Province of Quebec...
...against burns and concussion injuries from exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that often leads to gangrene...
...terms of ownership, this is the shape of the war plant that the U.S. has contracted for between June 1940 and February of this year-by which time materials shortages were ending plant expansion. No New Deal grab for power but hard-money business logic dictated the mounting blocks of Government ownership in the nation's new manufacturing capacity-from 41% in petroleum to 99.6% in explosives. In terms of dollars, the U.S. Government has financed some 85% of the entire program. Private capital financed as much expansion as it would have in normal times. The Government naturally shared...
...hank, "A great show by a great bunch. There's no theatrical manager who wouldn't grab it without the uniforms." Private Earl Carroll made half of a recruiting act which played Manhattan vaudeville theaters. Federal officers seized copies of the song It'll Be a Hot Time for the Old Boys when the Young Men go to War. Notable entertainers who volunteered to go overseas were John Drew, Billie Burke, Jane Cowl. Lillian Russell, Walter Damrosch. Maude Adams...