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FROM THE CRASH TO THE BLITZ: 1929-1939 by Cabell Phillips. 596 pages. Macmillan...
From the Crash to the Blitz is the first volume in the New York Times series, Chronicle of American Life. The 1940s, 1950s and 1960s are also scheduled to be turned into only-yesterday history. Stand by, America, for all the nostalgia that's fit to print...
Hitler had a strong reason for not accepting the opinions of his generals. As Siegfried Westphal, Rundstedt's chief of staff and now a steel executive, told Cate: "The generals had been wrong about both Czechoslovakia and Poland. None of us believed that such blitz campaigns were possible. Even in France, the German military predicted that the campaign would last much more than six weeks. Hitler was proved right, and ever afterward he followed his own judgment. Naturally, France was the last time he was right...
Because many beautiful?and rich ?people are for Lindsay, he will be able to outspend both of his rivals. That is one reason why the mayor may well win re-election after all. Much of the money is expected to go into a TV blitz in the campaign's last...
...surprisingly, the card blitz has led to some rather imprudent tactics: a San Francisco bank mailed cards to all of its customers without running any credit checks at all, while a bank in Chicago handed out cards to bystanders at a parade. A nationwide survey of 84 banks by Constantine Danellis and Richard N. Salle, two economists at California's San Jose State College, recently found that only 20% of the banks bothered to make credit checks. The economists also discovered that despite the profit potential of credit cards, many banks suffered bad losses...