Word: blitzkrieg
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...purred last week, cutting and threshing wheat. Every grain the machines gathered was a problem. Canada's wheat economy is built on an average annual production of 350,000,000 bushels, of which the greatest part was formerly shipped to Britain. Of that Britain marketed a large amount. Blitzkrieg and the fear of helping the enemy has knocked that market out. Last year Canada had a bumper crop of over 450,000,000 bushels, of which 275,000,000 is still in elevators, unsold. This year another heavy crop, probably 400,000,000 bushels, is at hand. Last week...
...Japs are not very far from here. The Germans are masters of Europe. At their feet lie the vanquished. Soon there will be another Blitzkrieg and if it succeeds liberty of thought, liberty of action, liberty of religion will have vanished from Europe. The Capones of Europe will be in the saddle and will run things. I fear that my fellow citizens do not realize what this will mean...
...news papers and statements of Cabinet Ministers last week was: "We must free ourselves of dependence on the United States and Britain." And the phrase which Yosuke Matsuoka fancied most was this: from now on, Japan's diplomacy would be something new under the rising sun-"surprise Blitzkrieg...
Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G Major (Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor: 6 sides). Before Hitler's Blitzkrieg, France had one top-rank symphony: the Paris Conservatory Orchestra. Haydn's lacy melodies suit its light-stepping strings and wood winds...
...books of doom in pulse, pace and outlook is a story of war and sudden death by U. S. Author Leland Jamieson. It is a simple, all-action narrative (recently serialized in the Saturday Evening Post) about outnumbered U. S. planes and a power-diving hero in an undeclared Blitzkrieg against the U. S. Fatigue sickens the young airman, fear of death cramps his stomach muscles, terror of being lost at sea in the night momentarily deprives him of his senses. But the last thing he thinks about is the end of the world...