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...lovely American girls in it. But an uneasiness crept over us early. When the hero came out of the Canteen with Joan Leslie . . . and stood staring at the beautiful car likewise awaiting his pleasure, the guy sitting next to me called, "Watch out, buddy-it's a booby-trap...
Such examples of plain commonsense and good storytelling may be credited in part to the script (by Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...
Uncle Sam's Fish College. The Fish and Wildlife Service has already proved, on a small scale, that the thing can be done. In 1939, while Grand Coulee was being built, the Service's fish experts began to trap salmon bound up river, rushed them by truck to a huge hatchery at Leavenworth, Wash. which Government biologists call "Uncle Sam's Fish College." There, far from their birthplace, the fish were propagated artificially-females were split open for their eggs and milt from the male salmon was squirted on them...
General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Singapore and Bataan, was about to evacuate Manila and take to the hills of northern Luzon, to get away from General Douglas MacArthur's advancing legions. To Jap correspondents in Manila, Yamashita declaimed & explained: "At last I have MacArthur in my iron trap. I have been chasing him all over the South Seas and each time he has slipped away from me. This time it will be different, and my pleasure of a face-to-face meeting will be realized...
Half-Measures. The fact was that OPA was caught in a trap it had foolishly sprung on itself two years ago under political pressure. At that time it clamped a low ceiling on the wholesale and retail prices of beef, but left cattle prices free to rise. Packers were hushed with a subsidy. This compromise was what the politically potent cattle raisers wanted. They won their market freedom, against the warning of scores of economists that no control over the retail price of food could work unless there was complete control of all farmers and farm prices...