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...through, the order may be slashed to 2,654 planes. If Army & Navy plans go through, the industry can count on Government orders of some $87,000,000 a month for the next 22 months, in addition to civilian orders already on hand. For these reasons planemakers were far cockier about the future than they had expected to be a month...
...TIME'S account described the first week of mass daylight raids in mid-September, when Londoners' reactions showed they were not yet bomb-hardened. They did undoubtedly harden, and they naturally grew cockier when mass daylight raids stopped after the British defense had rung up high daily scores in planes shot down. Far from cocky is the frank recital below of a man whose home...
...Office admitted that Mr. Hirota recently received from Mr. Grew and British Ambassador Sir Robert Clive the English Speaking Powers' third series of vigorous protests against the new oil monopoly laws of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo (TIME, Nov. 5). For the third time cocky Mr. Hirota's still cockier spokesman, famed Eiji Amau snapped: "We cannot admit any contention which ignores the sovereign independence of Manchukuo...
Austrian Nazis grew cockier day by day. Small but noisy bombs were exploded in dozens of cities. Crowds rioted in front of government concentration camps. A mysterious fire broke out in Parliament Building at Vienna, was quickly put out. Bravely the Dollfuss Government fought back. A secret report on Nazi preparations and propaganda was sent to the Governments of France, Italy, Britain, who remained as one in their desire to keep out of a very dangerous business. There was no secret about the note sent Germany demanding a written recognition of Austrian independence and a guarantee of nonintervention...