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...foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler's commercial agents, they said, had offered to transfer the entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia to Brazil. When World War II began to devour more steel than Europe could produce, Axel Wenner-Gren, Swedish steel baron (Bofors), was also supposed to have turned up in Rio de Janeiro with an offer for exploitation by a Swedish-German consortium said to include Krupp. Hoping to interest U. S. capital, Brazil issued pointed warnings that unless...
...piping hot dip in cold honey until completely covered. . . ." When we got hot over the blitzkrieg that swept 13 nations out of sight, the Japs began to pour the cold honey. . . . Every contemptible compromise of principle was proposed so that Japan could: ". . insert entire morsel in mouth and leisurely devour...
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair...
North of Crete-the island where the Minotaur in his labyrinth used to devour sacrificial Greek virgins-6-inch naval gunfire bellowed over the blue Mediterranean one morning last week. The 6,830-ton Australian cruiser Sydney had engaged two Italian cruisers of the 5,06g-ton Condottieri class-the Bartolomeo Colleoni and the Giovanni delle Bande Nere.* These ships can make 38 knots to the Sydney'?, 32.5. They have the same fire power (eight 6-inch guns each) but the Italians are lightly armored, designed especially to catch and destroy destroyers. Two British destroyers spotted them first...
...shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army, and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved...