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...Fourth is buttressed by 79 tanks. Its reconnaissance troop is expanded to a battalion (with 14 tanks). It has an anti-tank battalion, will soon get an anti-aircraft battalion, and a third regiment of infantry. Its weapon strength has been multiplied beyond the fondest dreams of any gun crank. It has 3,997 machine guns (including 1,460 Tommy-guns). It has 284 cannon, ranging from blunt-snouted 155s and 105s for the artillery to slim 75s for anti-tank work. And it rides in an assortment of 2,900-odd vehicles...
...TIME, Sept. 22). Its walls were painted a bright white-to make the movies clearer. The camera focused on a calendar (June 25), on a clock on the desk (6:16) and on a tall, sardonic-looking, dark-haired man-Frederick Joubert Duquesne. Agent Johnson began to turn the crank...
...popular Brandon Thomas farce from which the screen play was adapted is one of the most successful stage plays of all times with more performances on the professional and amateur stage than any play except Hamlet. The well-known lead is a crank at Oxford who in his tenth year as an undergraduate tries to help a couple of pals out of a hole by impersonating the aunt of one of them. As a chaperone who needs a chaper-one herself, ah himself, Benny spends the evening trying to get into the amorous clutches of his pals' financees...
...group of Catholics"- the Couglinites and Christian Fronters who currently stooge for the crusade idea - Bishop Hurley said: "We have suffered long from their tantrums. We have blushed for shame when they acted up before company as tantrum children will do in any family. Years ago they established the crank school of economics ; latterly they have founded the tirade school of journalism; they are now en gaged in popularizing the ostrich school of strategy...
...some 6,500 independent telephone companies that operate about 20% of the U.S.'s 22,600,000 telephones, the Mt. Vernon Telephone Co., of Rockcastle County, Ky., is certainly not the best. Most of its null subscribers suffer old-fashioned wall crank phones. Once a break in the line was not repaired for three months. Some lines are down because poles have rotted away and have not been replaced. On a $6,372 gross last year, the company lost $39.58, It prints no directory; subscribers merely give the crank a whirl and say: "Gimme John Boone...