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Skyrocket. For years Consolidated struggled along as a modest steel fabricator (one of its big jobs was making spillway gates, tunnel forms, for Boulder Dam) until the defense program handed it a sky rocket. But it was Alden Roach who touched it off, watched his company soar to its present annual rate of $250,000,000, almost 150 times the bleak...
...position. Before the guns could be manned every defender was killed. Not one offered to surrender. Another unit landing at Blind Cove fought across a ridge, waist-deep in snow, to join a main assault column. The Jap was tricky. Routed from one foxhole, he would escape by tunnel to another. But his tricks did him little good. U.S. officials had said they would not "send a boy to do a man's job." The 3,000 to 3,500 Japs on Attu were outnumbered as well as outarmed...
Pantelleria lies smack in the middle of the Sicilian Channel. It is about half the size of Malta and has a simmering volcano at its center. Its airfield is reported to be connected by tunnel with a small underground hangar. The harbor can be used as a submarine base. The whole island is strongly fortified...
...Second day. . . . Make a head [privy] in the tunnel hatch and place seat from waist hatch stool between rungs of ladder-not bad, although a bit on the chilly side. . . . Visibility picks up to three miles, still see nothing but snow...
...responded to a more rapid pulse within the earth, the life of Nanty Glo began to quicken. Women appeared at the doors of the almost identical, bleak, boxlike houses that line the town, the lesser wooden shacks; children and dogs ventured into the rain. At the entrance to the tunnel of the Heisley mine, the thick steel cable which miners call "the rope" began to move. After five minutes, scores of coal cars filled with miners came from beneath the earth, black as the coal they mined, only the whites of their eyes and the red of their lower lips...