Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the War Department announced that the Stars & Stripes will have a World War II successor. Its name: Yank. "Publisher" will be ex-Stars & Stripesman Egbert White (vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn). Like its famed model, Yank will be edited by soldiers who prefer putting together a paper to wearing Sam Browne belts. Ad-less, like its predecessor, it will probably sell...
Differences are that Yank will be a tabloid, carry photographs. Still bigger difference will be the problem of distribution and reporting, from Ireland to Australia. Contributions from Yank's world network of soldier reporters will go to Manhattan headquarters, where a staff of about 40 will put it together. Forces overseas will receive their copies via destroyer. Where editions can be printed locally, mats will be flown from Manhattan. With readers in all quarters of the globe, its big editorial problem will be to match the rank-&-file intimacy of Stars & Stripes, whose editors worked within hearing distance...
First A.E.F. reaction to the announcement of Yank was a squawk. U.S. troops in Australia griped at the title. They have already had fist fights with Aussies who insist on calling them Yanks. Most of those who got into scraps were Southerners, but other U.S. troops down under don't like the gritty name any better. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed, some Australian commanders have ordered their troops to lay off "Yank...
Anyone who thinks his country might be invaded-which means anyone now alive-would do well to read "Yank" Levy's Guerrilla Warfare-for instructions on how to harass invaders. Author Levy, 44, a Canadian-born soldier of fortune, now instructor of British Home Guards, has compiled a civilian's manual of mayhem and informal murder. His book is a brief, businesslike discussion of contemporary strategy, tactics and tricks for people caught in an invasion, with dozens of helpful hints on hamstringing, backstabbing, sniping and other dust-biting dodges. Author Levy urges householders to organize right away, study...
Guayule rubber is not new; Intercontinental Rubber Co. has been producing and selling it for 35 years. A U.S. corporation, Intercontinental gets all of its guayule rubber from Mexico, where the shrub grows wild in high, semi-arid regions. Mexican peons yank the plants from the ground, tie them on the backs of plodding burros, send them off to one of Intercontinental's three Mexican factories. There the rubber is extracted by running the plants through grinding and pebble mills. The final product (which is shipped to the U.S. in 100-lb. boxes) looks, feels and smells like tree...