Word: easts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East 49th Street New York City
Outstanding needs include: anti-tank guns (none on hand; 228 on order); antiaircraft guns (a piddling 24 in service east of the Rocky Mountains; 338 ordered); semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute rifles (8,000 in service; Army arsenals can produce 5,000 a year); gas masks (100,000 in service, 300,000 needed for the first-line fighters); heavy artillery (only four of the Army's new 155-millimeter field guns are in service); aircraft bombs (the War Department won't release the figures for fear of encouraging potential enemies...
...swank side of Manhattan's Central Park is Fifth Avenue on the east, where expensive apartments house Al Smith, many another who can pay for the privilege of looking out on some of the city's few trees. But the west side of the park, which has a similar view, is no slum. It, too, has fine buildings in which the annual rent of an apartment is as much as the cost of building a modest home. Such a building is the San Remo, whose services employes struck three months...
...cannot be said of Poland, where Ukrainian deputies recently were bold enough to demand autonomy for Galicia. The Nazi agitation for redistribution of land is likely to appeal to impoverished, disenfranchised, long-suffering Galician peasants. The Polish feudal rulers, caught between Naziism in the West and Communism in the East, are more likely, when faced with a final choice, to choose Hitler than Stalin...
...that Germany would win. Britain, having shown little interest in any further Eastern European developments, might choose to sit this war out with Italy. The Balkans might sit it out with Hungary, which is being Nazified as fast as Hitler can do it. Hitler's Push to the East thus has a pretty good chance of pushing...