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Barricaded in a Dutch hotel, Oliver's group found the shelling increased steadily -88s and Moaning Minnies (Nebelwer-fers), "the kind that scream at you and then curse voluble German on the way down." Amid the shells, the men nipped out in the open to get supplies dropped from...
...They scream we don't understand them when they come home. We don't know what it's like to see our buddy shot down in flames or ripped to pieces with a shell burst. How in hell could we know...
...high and tricky order. In 1940 Congress had plastered U.S. corporations with a 40% to 60% graduated tax on their excess profits. In 1942 the tax took another drastic leap: henceforth a flat 90% of excess profits would have to be paid into the Treasury. Corporations began to scream that they were being milked unfairly; they pleaded that they would have no postwar reserves. At first Congress turned a deaf ear. But between the tax laws and the war there had arisen many inequities; some industries were unfairly scrunched. The legislators took pity, thought twice, and finally cut a loophole...
...Mail: "Are you [the Government] men or mice. . . . Have we the guts to admit that our policy was dictated by political cowardice? . . . It is not a pretty challenge. Yet, in the language of the Government, it is proper and just. It is a poor defense for cowardice to scream 'Coward...
...producer, sees a gold mine in Curley and sets out to exploit him as the phenomenon of the century. Stinky, quito naturally, will not part with his pot, and Flynn spends three reels trying to make the worm a national figure without breaking the boy's heart. Newspaper headlines scream the daily intimacies of Curley's life. School children wear Curley sweaters. And everyone stops worrying about the war for a minute to sit back dreamily and think about the charming fairy tale of the dancing worm...