Word: blitzkrieg
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...Army. Order is maintained by the local and national police. As yet there is singularly little expression of popular opinion. The French have been invaded or occupied in whole or in part 33 times in seven of their 19 centuries, but never with the paralyzing impact of the German Blitzkrieg last June...
...fire fighting every day, snatched cat naps and quick gulps of food washed down by tea served hot in buckets right on the blazing job. In the Express, owned by Aircraft Production Minister Baron Beaverbrook, slick Columnist John MacAdam shamefacedly wrote of the Auxiliary Fire Service that before the Blitzkrieg began "we used to smile a little at them sometimes. 'The spit and polish firemen,' some people called them and there were others who used to talk about 'three pounds ten a week for playing darts.' The A. F. S. took it all with a shrug...
...included good will, a euphemism doubtless meaning that J. & L. will probably get the lion's share of tin-plate orders from McKees-port's can factories. Meanwhile, Wall Street anticipated a shower of back-dividend payments on J. & L. preferred, pushed it up from its May Blitzkrieg...
...Lightship, which had fancy premieres simultaneously in three large London theatres, they extol British courage in a salty, moving account of the bombing of the East Dudgeon lightship in the North Sea. This one also shows what Blitzkrieg has done to British film censorship. During the attack on the lightship a gnarled seaman crouching on the open deck looks up at a Heinkel raking the ship with machine-gun fire, spits out: "The dirty bastards...
...interesting light on Wall Street's recent mood was thrown last week by SEC's figures on who bought what: from May 10 to July 27, when the averages were recovering from their Blitzkrieg low of around 110, the Street professionals had their minds on Europe, were on balance sellers of stocks (680,269 shares net). In brilliant contrast for once was the performance of the small fry who trade in odd lots: beginning May 10 they bought 1,153,000 shares more than they sold. Not until August did the pros take over the buying initiative...