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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...get around the 20% Axiom, General Erich Ludendorff invented the tactic of "infiltration," opposed to previous mop-as-you-go theories. He postulated that when various parts of an advancing line meet heavy resistance, they should halt; the others, finding weakness, should penetrate and, as the surrounded enemy capitulates, join forces beyond. Usable in big or little units, infiltration was the plan of Ludendorff's big push on March 21, 1918, which almost licked the Allies...
...reason bombed a farmhouse. They went away, and after a while seven women who were desperately in need of food went out to scratch for potatoes; not really good ones-small potatoes. They had to eat even if there was a war, and those potatoes were all they could get...
...Miller eyeing his watch. . . . I was in the suction. ... I kept going down, and it kept twisting me around and carrying me down. I fought hard. I am a good swimmer and I finally washed out of the suction. ... I had to have air, I just had to get...
...Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like Bingo if the antigambling goblins don't get it first...
...call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered, Announcer Ben Grauer shouts "Stop, stop, Horace!" When Horace stopped the first week, Grauer called into the telephone of Frank J. Drouin, a wood carver of Andover, Mass.: "Sonny, get your father to the telephone. We have good news." When Mr. Drouin came on, Grauer told him: "This is the Horace Heidt program. I am happy to tell you that the sponsors, the makers of Turns, are making you a present of $1,000, and we are sending you the money...