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...Forest Rangers (Paramount) is the story of two fights, of which the first is a Technicolor natural. Fight No. 1 is waged by the Rangers against fire in U.S. National Forests. Fight No. 2 is the cat-spat which Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward wage over Fred MacMurray, while Rival Regis Toomey watches enviously at the ringside...
...that furnace-hot, crystal-clear July 3 of 1898, her turrets swung around, her guns (four 13-inchers, eight 8-inchers) spat steel and death at the Spaniards, her sweating gun crews cheered. Six Spanish ships were destroyed, the Spanish flagship Maria Teresa was chased onto the beach. U.S. Commodore W. S. Schley wigwagged: "Well done, brave Oregon." And because the Oregon was almost late to battle, she clinched another argument, which ended U.S. isolationism forever: a Panama canal was vital to U.S. defense...
...Japanese carrier-cruiser force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon saw a standard Japanese naval pattern: a big carrier (the new, 50-plane Ryukaku) steaming astern of two cruisers. The U.S. planes were still ten miles away when the cruisers' guns spat red and yellow flame. At four miles, the enemy anti-aircraft fire was thick and fierce. But the planes ignored the cruisers and flew on toward the carrier...
...north, near where the whole war had begun; about how they had bombed the Lunghai Railway, which the Japanese had tried to break almost as many times as the line has ties; and of course about how the American friends had beaten part of the Japanese Fleet. They spat when they read that the traitor Wang Ching-wei had gone to Manchukuo, where the Japanese were said to be concentrating troops against the Russians...
...observe another anniversary this week. Forty-four years ago, on May Day, Commodore George Dewey slipped in past The Rock on a starlit night. A signal light from The Rock flashed the warning of his fleet's approach, but only a gun on El Fraile (now Fort Drum) spat futilely at the Olympia and her following ships. Next morning the Spanish fleet, cornered like huddled rabbits off Cavite, was bashed to bits...