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...Germany from Moscow last week went a Christmas parcel wrapped in propaganda TNT. It was a big enough parcel to touch the hearts of 250,000 families bereaved by the debacle at Stalingrad. The card enclosed was signed by Lieut. General Walther von Seydlitz, a veteran of Stalingrad and now vice chairman of the Free German Committee...
...child called Chicken (Richard Jaeckel). These men and others as simply characterized are put through 1) quiet days & nights of increasing apprehension; 2) the raid on a nearby village (Matanikau), from which only three returned (only one, in the film); 3) cleaning out the Japanese with grenades, gasoline and TNT; 4) the ferocious Japanese naval shelling of Oct. 15, 1942, during which William Bendix improvises a prayer; 5) the relief by the Army, which ends the film on a grim exchange between a battle-bittered Marine and an unblooded Army boy, and the closeup of a sign Tokyo...
...record, in a battle of economies uncharted in previous U.S. history, was brilliant. His first job was to provide raw materials. With a speculator's foresight, he bought up a supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain...
...announced to newsmen last week at the award of an Army & Navy "E"' pennant to a Du Pont plant at Perth Amboy, N.J., where hexamine is made. The other ingredients of the explosive are secret, but the Army described its properties: it explodes faster and more violently than TNT. Apparently it has been used so far only in bombs, for which it is ideal...
...Unlike TNT, which calls for ammonia, sulfuric and nitric acids and toluene, hexamine requires no critical materials. Its basic raw ingredients are coke, air and water. Total production in U.S. in '1941 was 4,000,000 lb. New factories built since then have multiplied that output many times. But before war came, hexamine was a minor industrial product. Its chief uses then were in the manufacture of plastics and as an ingredient in an antiseptic for the urinary tract...