Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wake, north of the Marshalls and vulnerable to an attack from Pearl Harbor, is the low-lying, V-shaped coral mound once so courageously defended by Major James P. Devereux and his Marines. Directly west of the Gilberts the isolated, three-by-four-mile mound of Nauru rises 225 feet above the sea. A coral reef encircles it closely. Because of its rich phosphate deposits (in addition to its strategic position), it is jealously held...
...there pokin' his rifle in all the holes and shootin' like hell and gettin' shot at a million times a minute." At great risk from shore batteries, destroyers ran close to the beach, opened up on targets as small as one Jap sniper or one pillbox mound. It was precision firing, the shells often landing less than 50 yards from the Marines. If the high explosives did not wreck many of the fortifications, they did strip away most of the islands' palm fronds...
Devise a Trick. Earlier welding guns could be used only on horizontal plates. A small mound of powdered metal, of flux, was dumped on the plate and fused by electricity to attach the "stud." But on perpendicular plates there was no way to keep the flux in place. Instead, a small square of "welding pad" had to be laboriously welded, then the stud welded to that. Ted Nelson wearied of doing this, finally worked out a crude welding gun to make the job easier. But when he got "no thanks nor extra dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting...
...Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring. The other members of the group are Mezz Mazzrow (clarinet); George Lugg (trombone); Jack Butler (trumpet), who once played with the Hot Club of France; Jack Bland (guiter), who was a member of the original Mound City Blue Blowers; and, of course, Art Hodes, at the piano. College musicians are urged to sit in with the band and make the affair a real jam session. But whether or not you play, you shouldn't miss this. There hasn't been any such jazz in these parts for months...
Bill Judge will take the mound today in an attempt to pitch the Crimson baseball forces' to their second win of the season as the Stahlmen take on a strong Boston Coast Guard nine at Soldiers Field...