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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had a German job to perform, that they were to repopulate some of the newly won Polish areas, where the Reich needs "settlers capable of restoring German order." They were to be given property as nearly as possible like that which they left behind. At Gdynia, the port built by the late Polish Government, 14,000 apartments vacated by fleeing Poles awaited them. There the merchant class would presumably be set to work to build up a transformed, Germanized city...
...even more astonishing disaster occurred. The Admiralty sent an electric thrill of horror through the nation by tersely announcing, with regrets, that "His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak has been sunk, it is believed by U-boat action." Royal Oak* was a battleship of 29,150 tons, built in 1914, and her loss reduced from 15 to 14 the number of Britain's capital ships. The time and place of the sinking were not officially divulged, but it appeared to have happened between midnight and dawn...
Cadillac offers 31 models in five series. New are the torpedo-type Sixty-Two, the Seventy-Two with six different sedan styles. Custom-built and unchanged are V-16s. Prices...
Chevrolet's 1940 series (Master Eighty-Five, Master De Luxe, Special De Luxe) are longer (by 4⅜ in.), wider, lower, bigger than any Chevrolet ever built. Prices: unannounced. Alligator-jaw hood locks automatically, unlocks only from the dashboard...
Many another claim to fame has Financier Prince. Among them: he boasts that at various times he has owned 46 different railroads, that he has built four, that at the height of his operations he was good for $20,000,000 personal credit; he is reported to have refused $50,000,000 for his Chicago holdings, and to have been one of the few to liquidate before the 1929 crash; his son, Norman Prince (strictly forbidden to fly by F. H.) was a leader in organizing the famed Lafayette Escadrille, was killed in action; in 1934, he bought...