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Well the French knew that it is no part of German strategy or character to lose momentum. As the mass bombing of France began this week, it was recognized as execution of the Douhet theory's most frightful phase: to cripple an enemy's factories, transportation, communication, and...
So frightful to Wall Street was the spectacle of Hitler's revolution-on-the-march that no amount of advance discounting of Allied defeats seemed likely to forestall a fresh panic with each German victory, although the national defense program-for the first time of mass-production proportions-seemed...
In terms too simple for complete accuracy, Mr. Roosevelt then summarized his proposals to make independent CAA an adjunct of the Commerce Department, abolish CAA's Air Safety Board, otherwise revise its setup. The people who incurred the President's frightful politeness were eleven airline pilots. Organizer of...
In Manhattan Playwright Sherwood said: "There's a frightful conspiracy of silence that is turning Washington into an orgy of unreality. . . . It is a 'peace hysteria' clouding all attempts at intelligent thought about the war. Congress is one mass of Chamberlains. The United States is in exactly...
During the first night, with frightful weather continuing, Norway's coast de fenders first stole the show by sinking German advance forces, then upset the plot by falling treacherously into German hands so that their shore guns were turned against the Allies (see p. 22}. Before any thing...