Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very much the worse for wear, the resident members of the Guadalcanal Press Club had seen and experienced more tough combat than any U.S. correspondents in World War II. Reporters on Bataan could recuperate in the rock caverns of Corregidor. On Guadalcanal, reporters' protection consisted solely of the fighting marines. Unlike many of their whip-corded, cane-carrying, limousine-borne forebears of World War I, Guadalcanal newspapermen literally become "fighting correspondents...
...situation was doubly shameful because no one could treat the food problem as a disastrous Act of God. The harvest year 1942 was the most bounteous since the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock. The Japs and Nazis had cut the U.S. off from only a few more or less exotic foodstuffs. (Examples: caviar, anchovies, patée de fois gras.) Thus, with reason, all over the land the U.S. housewife and her menfolk were beginning to ask: How come a bottleneck in the middle of a horn of plenty? But there was no one bottleneck. There were nine...
...tough-as-leather assistant who lives on benzedrine, a hen-brained Southern girl, a vengeful English one, a onetime burlesque queen, a Brooklyn babe, an unconscious Lesbian. Under incessant gunfire, they grow jittery, wisecracking, quarrelsome, valiant. In the last tense scenes, as realistic bombs and anti-aircraft fire literally rock the theater and the audience, the Fifth Columnist holds the other girls at bay with a revolver after the shelter entrance is blocked. At the end the Japs drive them out of their shelter: a moment later comes the rat-tat-tat of machine guns...
...show Malta that Benito Mussolini was now in the war. Maltese looked up from their stony little cotton, wheat and potato fields. Ironworkers, coppersmiths and lacemakers stuck their heads out of their shops for a glimpse of Mussolini's planes. From emplacements in Malta's limestone rock around the Grand Harbour and His Majesty's Dockyards, anti-aircraft guns boomed. A house front was damaged, a few civilians hurt, but most of the bombs fell...
...frail hopes of New Haven shareholders promptly withered. The price of New Haven common fell 50% overnight. Professional speculators took ICC at its word, with the result that Wall Street saw some strange phenomena: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 6% preferred with eight months' earnings of $20.43 a share sold for 75?; St. Louis Southwestern common with earnings of $19.69 a share hung around $4 (bid); Missouri Pacific with earnings of $19.06 a share sold...