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...mass help arrived. From Antwerp through Louvain to Namur ran another line of forts, completed in the last seven months. And across the Belgian hills for 100 miles ran a flexible wall of heavy steel fence set on rollers, calculated to enmesh all tank advances until defensive cannon could demolish them. In 1914, King Albert had to withdraw his forces from Liege after twelve days, first to Brussels, which fell in another four days; then to Antwerp, which held out 67 days longer, after the Germans turned on it to end Belgian sorties which were hampering their southward drive upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leopold Goes to War | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...controls the German patents to the film process of recording, a means of recording on film and reproducing via light waves and photo-electric cells--something like a movie sound track. This may be wild day-dreaming, but isn't it possible that Victor is starting this line to demolish competition in the field, and realizing that it will probably injure its own Red Seal irreparably as well, doesn't particularly care, because it intends to switch in a few years to the film process anyway, which completely eliminates needle-scratch and gives much better reproduction...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...evening he occasionally gives a stag dinner (his wife and two children live in Peking), otherwise reads something light and goes to bed-sometimes to be wakened in the middle of the night by an air raid alarm. The Embassy has a stout dugout, but a direct hit would demolish it, Nelson Johnson, and U. S.-Japanese relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...year-old man, fatter now than he was in the days when he was one of Adolf Hitler's stanchest standbys, a man so severely wounded in 1914-18 that he must still lead an ascetic life-Dr. Otto Strasser, head of the Black Front, sworn to demolish Hitler. He had obviously planned the bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...navy consists of only six destroyers, manned by 137 officers, 1,582 men. Her total active militia is 4,034 men. Her coastal defense guns date from before the War, and are so small that enemy battleships could anchor unharmed 30,000 yards off Halifax or Vancouver and demolish either city. Worst of all, Canada has at most two anti-aircraft guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Something Missing | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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