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...course will teach the prospective wardens elementary gas-preventive measures, how to demolish buildings, and what action to take if incendiary bombs should break through the roof. It will demonstrate how wardens must be organized into units so as to keep the report center informed as to extent of damage and need for outside aid; such damage for example, as debris cluttering the streets broken gas mains and unexploded time bombs...
...devote his energies to something he liked. Having discussed many times the problems of heredity with his uncle, he took it up seriously, is now a director of the American Eugenics Society. Last week, in his Preface to Eugenics (Harper; $2.75), Mr. Osborn presented the scientific evidence to demolish the last remnants of his uncle's fancy...
...Nazis gained mastery of the air they could demolish the bases from which the British Fleet operates in the Channel and the North Sea; they could make those narrow seas untenable for the trawlers which lay and sweep mines; they could sink British destroyers (whose vulnerability has already been proved) which tried to counterattack with their own torpedo boats; they could keep British convoys out of the Channel; they could destroy the western port facilities through which Britain receives the goods necessary to her life and defense. Under these conditions the British Fleet might remain unconquered, the British merchant marine...
...their slogan, "We'll give 'em Hell D. V."). The Home Guard are older men, trained at night and over weekends, with a hard core of War I veterans. Their officers' chief concern was to make them overcome their scruples, be prepared to demolish British property when necessary to exterminate Germans...
...keynote came Herbert Hoover. Even now the delegates came with solemn hope they would get a chance to tear up their chairs and set fire to their hats. They were more than willing to give him the benefit of all their doubts; they were eager to hear him demolish the New Deal; they were even more eager to cheer some challenging declaration of faith. But inflexible Mr. Hoover mushmouthed his delivery; the clear, hot words of his finest address got lost (as always) deep in his bulldog chops. He stood there awkwardly, a near-great man whose fate has been...