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Austria. At his beloved Vienna, Hitler would hear from his Gauleiters about "joyous celebrations" on the fourth anniversary of the Anschluss. But if he took a bath in the Imperial Hotel, where he stayed in the spring of 1938, Hitler would have to dry himself with paper towels. Hotel owners can now be hanged as "traitors to the fatherland" unless they surrender all cloth towels. They are needed for bandages on the Russian front...
Luckily for the plot, the real spy never has time to take a bath...
...Plot That Failed. Nevertheless the British had killed French workers. This was the opening for Nazi propagandists. But they, like the military defenses, were caught off guard. They bemoaned "a blood bath with no military objective" -an accusation belied, not only by the British photographs of the industrial damage but also by Commandant Fontaine's eyewitness account of it. They pointed out that the Luftwaffe had spared beautiful Paris-which looked silly in the face of Vichy admissions that the British had not hit Paris proper. The casualty figures were contradictory: Commandant Fontaine put the number of dead...
...nitric acid. He starts by giving his copper plate a coat of beeswax, scratching his design in the soft wax with a needle. Copper, exposed where the wax has been scratched away, is then eaten away by acid. Parts still covered with beeswax remain uneaten. When the acid bath is over, remaining wax is rubbed off and plate is ready for printing. In Drypoints, which look like etchings to the uninitiated, the artist scratches his design right on the metal, uses...
...with all this speed there was confusion aplenty. The 16 yards operated independently but often interchanged parts like plates, boilers, propellers, etc., if it seemed expedient. Most Todd-Bath yards string along the Atlantic Coast, 3,000 miles from Kaiser's Pacific Coast yards. This meant long hauls for interchanged parts, delay, a steady shower of yard-to-yard wires and memoranda. Henceforth Todd communication lines will string between twelve yards instead of 16. Said Henry Kaiser, "We felt that each could do more alone...