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...between their toes, between slices of bread in their dinner pails, or who raid staked claims which are not yet producing. They peddle their loot to "receivers" for about $10 an ounce. The receivers melt the stolen ore into "buttons" worth $4,000 to $5,000 each. Then "carriers" tote the buttons, usually hidden in multiple-pocket corsets, into the U.S. Most of the gold reaches New York City, where refiners pay $30 an ounce for it, sell it in turn to the U.S. Treasury...
Rations. Jungle-fighting Japs can carry a 15-day supply of rice, which they mix with fish, bamboo shoots, water ferns, etc., but U.S. soldiers must tote monotonous K rations-and a 15-day supply would weigh 38½ pounds. Hence rations often have to be dropped in the jungle from planes, with the consequent danger that the enemy may spot the locations and gauge the strength of U.S. columns...
...fighters of the U.S. Eighth Air Force (ordinarily bombers' escorts) destroyed nearly 1,000 trucks and vehicles. The Ninth Air Force fighters ran up an even larger score-nearly 1,800 vehicles. The big strategic bombers-Fortresses and Liberators, night-flying Lancasters and Halifaxes, every aircraft that could tote a bomb-raked the lines of retreat that reached back to Paris...
...bookmakers. Big tracks license 150 or more for each meeting. Two shillings (40?) is the totalizator minimum bet. But greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...
...pioneering for the Haines cutoff. Without adequate maps or a ground survey, three companies of the 340th Engineers pushed into the snow late last winter. Location parties used dog teams and native guides. Working with limited equipment in winter weather, the "Hairy Ears" found a way, slashed out a tote road...