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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this strategy is adopted military history may take a running broad jump back to Napoleonic times, when domination of Spain and the Po River Valley of northern Italy bulked large in the campaigns of the French...
Poland has attempted to concentrate her industry in the so-called Polish triangle on the upper Vistula. After the first fight in the railroad network area, after the German mechanized army had had a chance to bog down in the muddy roads back of the old frontier, the Polish army would still have its own industrial area behind it-provided the Germans had not got into the triangle by the backdoor. On the south (Slovakia) the triangle is guarded by the Carpathians which stand next to the Alps as a first-class natural fortification. On the west it faces greater...
Artist Curry himself devised the ingenious arrangement of ropes and pulleys that holds the two paintings back-to-back in his studio, flips them like a coin for his inspection. Full of movement as a cinema is Oklahoma Land Rush (see cut), with its wheels carrying a circular motion clear across the canvas. On the light spring wagon Curry amused himself by lettering: Curry Wagon Works, Madison, Wis. Under the legend OKLAHOMA OR BUST, on the covered wagon, was the name Hal Ickes until friends of the Secretary of the Interior pointed out that no member of the Ickes family...
...nearly two years Peewee Punter Elkins has played a Daily Double (a pair of horses picked to win the first and second races of the day's card). But he always picked the wrong combination. Instead of quitting, he continued to pore over form charts, continued to back up his judgment with...
...most prosperous of all Hearst magazines is Good Housekeeping. Pioneering in insisting on respectable advertising copy, it has grown buxom from advertising brought in by the seals of approval it issues to manufacturers and by its money-back guarantee to consumers. This week the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Hearst Magazines Inc., charging Good Housekeeping with "misleading and deceptive acts and practices in the issuance of guarantys, seals of approval and the publication in its advertising pages of grossly exaggerated and false claims for products advertised therein." Further charges...