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...Grandpappy" is what flyers call the BIS, first of the really big modern U.S. bombers. He is only six years old, but such age automatically qualifies any plane as an octogenarian. Grandpappy is the only B15 ever built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Grandpappy | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...really meant TOTAL. Timing his blow at a moment when the irresolute, unprepared Democracies were disturbed by their failure in Norway and politically disrupted within by that failure, he struck with singleness of purpose which ignored all morality but his own, utilized all the psychological and ideological weaknesses of bis enemy. Shortage of war materials, poor crop prospects next autumn, all helped spur him now to the quick war, risking all, which he knew favored him more than a war of any length. Only by stalling Blitzkrieg into a trench-digging war, until they grew stronger, did the Allies have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Hitler's Hour | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Yesterday I heard the Field Marshal's impassioned speech to the munition workers at Tegel. ... At the end of the speech the workers sang Deutschland über Alles. To my astonishment I heard them sing the old, unchanged words: "Von der Etsch bis an den Belt!" How about that? The Etsch (called Adige by the Italians) is at present and has been for 20 years held by the countrymen of Mussolini, who a few months ago had completed his plans for driving out of the Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...clock each morning he leaves his apartment on the third floor of a five-story house at No. 55 Avenue Foch, near Paris' Arc de Triomphe. He is driven in a staff car to his office in a long, low, old-fashioned building at No. 4 bis Boulevard des Invalides, below the gold dome of Napoleon's tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Good Grey General | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Abie Walbert fon drous hinnich da Lechaw Kerrich drin secht, er gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma fon da picknicks, yusht's dade'n so narafich mocha bis er sie g'frok'd het. Da onner owet hot er aenie hame shnarra wolla fon dons on Shamrock, ow'r in blotz fon sawga 'Darf ich mit d'r hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pumpernickle Bill | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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