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Black Watch. To civilians who think of Army engineers as pick-&-shovel soldiers, the performance of the 41st might have seemed surprisingly belligerent. But not to soldiers: combat engineers fight with guns as well as shovels, often lead attacking troops into battle when enemy fortifications, tank-traps, etc. have to be demolished. Lieut. Colonel Wood's use of simulated tanks was something extra, just to show what Negro engineers could do in a pinch...
...flat, or to get the captain's hat, Motor trucks with pieces hooked on.* > The Army Engineers sing: The Captain says my rifle's rusty And I don't know but what he's right, If he'd inspect my pick and shovel, He'd always find them shining bright.* > The Air Corps now has an official song: Off we go into the wild blue yonder, Climbing high into the sun; Here they come zooming to meet our thunder, At 'em boys, give 'er the gun! . . . With scouts before and bombers galore...
...main reason for the big poundage rise is heavy machinery and instruments. To fix a broken Navy power shovel, Illinois' Buda Company recently air-expressed a 750-lb. Diesel engine crankshaft 7,826 miles to Wake Island in the Pacific; Aluminum Co. of America rushed 1,207 lb. of aluminum from Pittsburgh to California to avoid an aircraft production...
Hell-Bent for War. General Hugh Samuel Johnson never calls a spade a spade if he can possibly call it a damned old shovel. He is master of the sprightly truculence peculiar to journalistic generals plus a felicity of invective all his own. But Hell-Bent for War is remarkably restrained. It is the first full-length statement of his position by an isolationist who insists he is only a realist, and whose verbal hammer-throwing at the New Deal and those who believe that the U.S. should enter World War II before it is too late, daily delights...
...schmaltz could have been dumped on with a steam-shovel, piled high and gooey. But it isn't. It's laid on gently with a medium-sized trowel. This admirable restraint makes "Knute Rockne, All-American" one of the better football pictures of the year, one of the better biographies...