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Some Japs did get across; bullets rained down on Schmid from treetops. The water jacket on the machine gun was shot into a sieve; a grenade blew the gun into junk...
...heap of miscellaneous junk from Newell Boathouse is the University's latest contribution to the scrap drive. The buildings around Cambridge are being stripped, and have already yielded tons of the metal. This latest donation should produce about 250 pounds...
...been warned to expect-however harassed they may think they have been heretofore. It would mean that nonwar manufacturers-even those who are limping along without using critical materials or machinery needed elsewhere in its present form-are about to see their means of production go to the junk pile. More important to the U.S. as a whole, it would mean that, when peace comes, there will be no machinery left that is designed to produce for the inevitable tidal wave of post-war civilian demand. $40 for $4,000. An index of what such wholesale destruction would mean came...
...over the U.S. movie theaters had their lobbies piled high with more free-admission junk. Churches and women's clubs competed for city prizes. The Hobo News scrapped a two-ton press...
...double-elliptical, high-uffen-buffen, double-turreted, back-acting submarine war junk. . . . She is about the shape of a sweet potato that has burst in the boiling. She draws 14 feet of mud forward, and 16 ft. 6 in. of slime aft, and has three feet of discolored water over the maindeck in fair weather. . . . All the clinkers, ashes, buckets, shovels, etc. and an occasional sleepy coal passer are sucked up the flue and blown thousands of miles...