Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walton was finally rescued from the pear tree, but for the next three days he was under constant fire-never had his boots off, got only three hours sleep in 72. Once he had to plunge through a swamp, wade away from the enemy with machine-gun bullets pinging all around him. But all during those hours he somehow managed to hang on to his typewriter...
...that was not war: it was only preparation for war, as Krueger's Third Army stood off the armored thrusts of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second in the Louisiana swamp country (September 1941). How good a preparation it had been was apparent last week. Again, Krueger was fighting in marshes and forests. But now on Luzon, main island of the Philippines, the initiative was his. The weight of armor was his. Superiority in manpower (at least locally) was his. Superiority in firepower was emphatically his. In the air and on the surrounding sea the enemy was utterly...
...obviously sinister from the start; little by little the aunt & uncle begin to seem queer to her too. In the most promising stretch of the picture, as she flinches in terror of groaning shutters and sudden extinctions of the lights, or follows the beckoning of inchoate voices into the swamp, it is as impossible for the audience as for the victim to know what is plain fact, what is the hallucination of a crumbling mind, who if anybody is to be trusted...
...jiggled his train off over two streaks of rust into the thick, green jungle. Scaring up small clouds of fabulously colored butterflies, the train passed what the bombs had left of a small white church, a row of Chinese graves, a smashed Jap cannon, then rolled on over swamp-spanning bridges to a line of deserted dugouts, a small American cemetery, at last to the Mogaung terminal...
...alone owns between 500,000 and 600,000 tools-"over 25 years normal prewar production of the machine-tool industry." The Federal Government has not the merchandising organization to sell these tools piecemeal. Yet if it dumps them on the market it might 1) make fortunes for speculators; 2) swamp the machine-tool industry...