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...ships. This time the bombs rending docks, ships, airdromes and troops were U.S. bombs. The men riding shoreward in squat assault boats, leaping to the beaches, mounting their guns and slowly closing their hold on the islands were U.S. Marines. This time it was the Japs who peered slit-eyed from the slit trenches, who listened for the roar of attacking planes, who wondered when the hard, murderous strangers would next spring from the dunes and lunge forward behind grenades, machine guns and bayonets. This time it was the Japs who cried for reinforcements, and moaned that the tide...
...Corps not one American has been killed or wounded by Jap bombers or strafers-in fact, the only non-Air Corps grave in the American section of the military cemetery is that of a soldier killed in a truck accident. There have been some close calls. On two occasions slit trenches containing American anti-aircraft troops have had direct hits, but the bombs happened to fall in a non-inhabited part of the V-shaped trench...
...Stocky, slit-eyed Milo Randolph Perkins, instead of going to college, sold newspapers, magazine subscriptions, fruits and vegetables, gunny sacks. At 23, risen to sales manager for Bemis Bros. Bag Co. in Houston, Tex., he quit to start his own business. At 35, he was making $20,000 a year...
...treatment to avoid gas gangrene has been developed by Lieut. Colonel Frank Scozzari Adamo. He cleans wounds with hydrogen peroxide, which liberates oxygen, kills gas-forming bacteria, unable to live in air. Then he opens the wounds wide, slitting the muscles longitudinally and exposing a large area to the air, so that the gas germs cannot breed. The slit muscles heal easily. By this "conservative surgery" Surgeon Adamo claims to have saved a large number of arms and legs...
...milk problem preceded the twinning problem, offered shepherds fancy prices for ewes with more than two functional nipples. First year he assembled 16 multinippled sheep, began his selective breeding. Not without trouble-foxes, dogs and winter winds killed many of his flock, and an eager aide slaughtered and slit open one of the best ewes to see in advance if she was bearing twins. By 1914 the flock averaged well over six nipples apiece, and Bell then concentrated on breeding for twins...