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During the first few days of the fighting on Attu, belly wounds were predominant. The reason: green troops had not learned to hug the ground closely. During the later phases of Attu's fierce fight more men were wounded in the buttocks than anywhere else. This prompted the hospital's senior surgeon, Major Merriwell T. Shelton, of Augusta, Me., to observe: "A lot of soldiers wearing Purple Heart ribbons are going to have a hard time explaining how they got wounded...
...pressure on the 14 short-wave stations in the U.S. was fast becoming a bear hug last week. At the war's start, the Nazis had 68 short-wave stations; the Axis-in-Europe now controls an estimated 100. Great Britain has about 50. The U.S. has 14-privately owned, loosely synchronized, a poor match all around for the close teamwork of radio Berlin-Rome-Tokyo. If the overseas branch of the OWI intended to jump with both feet into the global propaganda war, it had to do something about short-wave stations and do it quickly...
...that the mercury 1) dissolved a lot of rust from the steel tubes it moved through, 2) did not heat uniformly, so that it flowed poorly, overheating certain boiler pipes. A corps of chemists, metallurgists, engineers finally figured out the reason. Mercury-with its well-known tendency to hug itself in little globules-was not "wetting" the steel heating tubes in intimate contact. Hence oxygen crept between the two metals and rusted the steel, and the uneven contact led to uneven heating. What was needed was a wetting agent for the mercury. Scientists found it by putting traces of magnesium...
...Navy: "Probably one-fourth of the famous submarine fleet has been sunk. Surface vessels hug the harbors because of lack of oil, disrepair and a healthy respect for British gun power...
...girl friend Wun Hug was also confident in predicting a Cambridge victory...