Word: logging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miracle of bringing one 37-mm. gun over those mountains. In fact, they discovered they could bring heavier 25-pounders themselves when they decided to go forward over the smaller peaks. The Japs had dug trenches, set up machine-gun nests in the roots of trees, piled up log barricades-but evidently thought better of their plan to defend their foremost ridge, 88 long miles over the mountains from their Buna supply base...
...Battle Log. His latest & greatest task was an epic, even as tersely logged...
...signal drum is made by an expert drum maker who digs out the core of a 2-to 3½-ft. log. He does his digging through a 3-to 4-in. slit running the length of the log. The wood on one side of the slit is thicker than that on the other to provide a difference in pitch between the two sides...
...strictly military action, Scriptors W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and Director John Farrow stuck to the Wake Island log and made their record "as accurate and factual as possible." But the participants and their conduct at ease and in combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does...
...engineers scraped the moss back, over the ice, put a corduroy planking on top and let nature freeze a solid roadbed. Pushing out of Whitehorse and Slana, one group paused briefly one afternoon on the shore of Kluane Lake at the foot of 19,000-foot peaks. Beside the log cabin of Trapper Hayden and his half-breed Indian wife the Engineer band played. A young private rose and sang the marching song of the road: Squaws along the Yukon Are Good Enough...