Word: classe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having seen clearly what was coming, the Finns have stored surprising amounts of ammunition. From Sweden they got guns, not too many but very good ones, especially the first class Bofors anti-aircrafts. Their little fleet could do with support from Sweden's crack one, being mostly submarines, gunboats, motor torpedo boats, but Russia's clumsy battleships draw too much water to go close to shore. Chief disadvantage of the Finns is in the air, whence plenty of hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first...
...Great Britain the Ministry of Supply announced that a 13-year-old schoolboy, one John Clough, had (while bedded with a chill in the infirmary) worked out a new type of air bomb which was a "first-class idea," had passed preliminary tests...
Germany further claimed, last week, another submarine blow to the Royal Navy: a cruiser either of the London (9,750-ton) class or the Dorsetshire or Norfolk (9,925 tons). The alleged striker: Lieut. Günther Prien, 31, Hero of Scapa Flow...
...John implied that the already crushing British income tax, which long ago ceased to be purely a "soak-the-rich" proposition, will have to be extended downward from the white-collar to the soiled-collar class. Britain is spending half her national income on the war, the Chancellor warned, yet even with armament plants going full blast 1,400,000 workers are still unemployed. Sir John, with typical British forthrightness, declared that a war of this magnitude cannot be fought on any easy assumption that it will not depress the existing standard of living in Britain and elsewhere...
...later: "A beautiful reception. The students were beautifully behaved." The American Civil Liberties Union congratulated President Seymour. Whooped the New York Daily News: 3,000 BOOLA Boo BROWDER AT YALE. But the World-Telegram, which believes that the Browder menace is no laughing matter, hissed: "Liberalism ... has its sophomore class...