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...hell broke loose before noon. From the north and from the south the hidden Japs poured artillery and 6-in. mortars into the marines on the beachhead. Nearly all our tanks were clustered near the black-ash beaches like so many black beetles struggling to move on tar paper. A few other chuffing monsters waddled up the steep incline toward the airfield, spouting flames now and then into the .pillboxes which were blended into the sandy approaches...
...Marie, Ont. other provost officers, aided by Mounties, were staging another manhunt. In two cars and a truck they drove to the road's end at the foot of lonely Gros Cap hill. Then they trudged on snowshoes up the steep hill to a well-hidden, log-and-tar-paper shanty at the top. Outside, the officers pounced on five unshaven, bedraggled youths. Inside they found seven more, plus large stores of butter, canned goods, milk, cigarets, coffee, bread...
...Tar Heel...
When the plant system-steel and all-is in production, China will be able to manufacture an impressive range of products, e.g., steel ingots, rolled shapes, aluminum, sulphuric acid, coal tar, alcohol, gasoline, fertilizers, electric motors, tires and tubes, light bulbs and bicycles...
...molecule, magnified nearly 100,000,000 times (its actual size: one forty-millionth of an inch), is hexamethylbenzene, an organic compound derived from coal tar. Its design, deduced from its chemical behavior, has long been pictured in chemistry books as follows...