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...camera moves over the brick, mortar and stone of the hilly Welsh village, wanders-up & down the pleasant countryside, down into a grim mine, pauses a moment on the black slag (waste of the coal pits) which will some day engulf the valley and drive the people...
This week Paramount stockholders were the happiest of a happy lot. At its present rate, Paramount should earn $10,000,000 this year-a record since 1930. Loew's earnings rate points to $8,500,000-$9,000,000. Moreover, the very brick-and-mortar which swamped Paramount in 1933 is now its most profitable possession...
Rifle. Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme, 30-year-old dairy farmer mashed a German force lodged in a schoolhouse by pitching in a grenade. Later he penetrated German lines, killed a mortar crew of four, continued stalking snipers who harassed the British withdrawal until he had 130 in the bag. Sergeant Hulme said last week he got his stalking experience on his farm, tracking a cow that would not turn up at milking time...
What with war and a shortage of funds, the only workmen left building the greatest Protestant cathedral in Christendom last week were Irish Catholic Bricklayer Arthur Donald Brady, 19, and aged Mortar Mixer Paddy Riley...
...spit-&-polish tradition that is the hallmark of all good outfits. They got demerits for not placing their shoes properly under their beds, for sloppy appearance, for languid carriage. More important, they got an intensive course in weapons, from the Garand rifle to the machine gun and the mortar. They took turns commanding their own companies...