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Farm to Factory. Four months ago the site of the Detroit Tank Arsenal was a farm, turning brown and sere under a hazy autumn sun. During the summer Big Bill Knudsen had called bulky K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., and asked him, as one motormaker to another: Could Chrysler build the Army a medium tank? "K. T." said, sure. Could he see one to get an idea what it was like...
...British Isles. Adolf Hitler's own newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, last week observed that a German invasion of Great Britain last autumn "would have spared the English people some distress and grief," adding that the reason why the invasion was not made would be told at the opportune time-"and not only with words." The Berlin correspondent of La Tribuna of Rome wired his paper that Germany was making formidable preparations for the final assault on Britain: "There are German troops who for months and months have been trained in nothing but embarkation and landing operations. There...
...Arte Quartet plan to go to California next summer, return to Madison next autumn. They never play down to any audience, think that concerts like those in Watertown prove them right...
Britain's closing of the Burma Road last summer, and Japan's threat to it with her penetration of French Indo-China last autumn, made the Chinese fearful of being cut off from every source of military supplies except Russia. Consequently steps were taken to increase the flow by other routes. Smuggling was increased all along the South China coast-until fortnight ago the Japanese Navy announced it had had to tighten its blockade...
...their battered countrymen last week. > Relieved of his post as Chief of the R. A. F. Fighter Command in November to undertake a mission to discuss plane production in Canada and the U. S., Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding arrived in Ottawa, told newsmen: "During the past autumn a method has been found to deal with the night-bombing menace and equipment is being rapidly completed. Of course, I'm not at liberty to give you any details of the methods to be used, but I confidently believe it will not be long now before...