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...American farm revolution was set last week for Sept. 15. Beginning that day, blunt Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard will appear first in Salt Lake City, then in Chicago, New York and Memphis to tell the farmers of each section their role in the greatest food-production program ever conceived...
...when police fired on the crowd, the Nazi-controlled Paris press growled, "Jews and Communists!" Same day, two miles away in the traditionally Red St. Denis district, police quelled another roaring riot. Following day, Nazi authorities revealed a wave of arson was sweeping both zones in France, issued a blunt warning to Communist saboteurs and propagandists that they were "liable to the death penalty." Latest arson victims: three large factories producing German war supplies. Train wrecks were multiplying so rapidly that Paris police posted 1,000,000 francs for information which would trap the responsible culprits...
Words. The blunt phrases of French Fascism's aged favorite were in the megalomaniac strain of all dictators. "In 1917," rumbled he, "I put an end to mutinies. In 1940 I put a period to our rout. Today it is from you yourselves that I want to save you." There was nothing unusual about the rules that Marshal Pétain announced-they came right out of the common totalitarian rule book...
...Blunt-nosed, cream-colored, the plastic Ford looks much like any other 1942 automobile. It has a standard Ford 60 chassis, engine, wheels. But the plastic body cuts its total weight from 3,000 lb. to 2,000. The body consists of 14 panels (formed in 1,000-ton presses) attached to a tubular steel frame...
This week Franklin Roosevelt invited nine members of the House and Senate (including Republicans Austin of Vermont and Wadsworth of New York) to the White House, sat them down to listen to General Marshall. What they heard they kept generally to themselves. But anybody could guess it. The blunt fact was that only two of the Army's 33 divisions (the First and Third) could be kept relatively intact if the U.S.'s one-year soldiers were sent home. The other regular outfits would have to start all over again. Draftees would have to be lugged back from...