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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vulnerable. A heavy bomb can only dent her deck, but a lucky hit down a funnel into the magazine might do for her. High-altitude precision bombing could be crippling if delivered in a pattern so that the Iowa's speed and maneuverability couldn't save her. More damaging would be close-in, suicidal plane attack-and even with her announced 20-gun, 5-inch secondary battery, sixteen 1.1-inch anti-aircraft guns and unannounced small-caliber armament, the Iowa alone couldn't stave...
...tables, spading gardens, painting signs, talking himself into a job as gym instructor. After the Spanish-American War he broke into journalism as a $10-a-week reporter, married his college sweetheart, lived on a family budget that gave him 50? a week for spending money, usually managed to save a dime out of his allowance toward a paper...
...rushed up from the rear of the group, and shouted out "column right-march" just in the nick of time to save some valuable units of Uncle Sam's Navy...
...Time and the Town. Sniggering Provincetowners wondered whether he would have a studio to finish it in. Reason: battered by decades of New England wind & weather, Motif No. 1 was reported last week to be collapsing. With red paint and linseed oil, 30 Rockport artists were trying to save the shed without spoiling its antique finish...
...bare distasteful facts." This tendency to evade the issue and to seek the easy way out is, for Reston, the greatest threat to a United Nation victory, and he devotes the book to dispelling this threat. Facts contained in chapters like "The Illusion that Time and Money Will Save Us" are ably used to dissipate mental mists, and the reader, given easily digestible figures on shipping losses and the length of transportation lines, suddenly realizes that the Allies lost their time advantages, with their bases, after Pearl Harbor...