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...Pavilion, N. Y., one of Penguin's, inner gear cases broke. In Troy, Dr. Poulter had to stop to pick up some instruments. While Penguin labored along the hairpin turns and precipitous slopes of the Berkshires, it caused the greatest traffic jam New England had ever honked...
Only three vessels were torpedoed by Nazi submarines last week. Yet the toll of merchant tonnage and civilian lives taken at sea by Germany was the greatest for any week of the war to date. Twenty-one ships totalling 93,300 tons of Allied and neutral shipping went to the bottom. More than 200 persons were killed, some 100 of them in one sinking which rivaled the Athenia as the war's foremost "atrocity...
Richer Abroad. The Dutch are today the largest holders of gold, foreign exchange, foreign and colonial securities of any continental European nation (about $6,000,000,000) and the largest foreign holders, next to the British, of U. S. securities (about $1,000,000,000). But the greatest wealth of The Netherlands is the wealth of the Indies...
...declaring that a state of thinly veiled conflict, the outbreak of which into actual war is only just suppressed, is not true peace. Mere absence of war is not His will for us nor our greatest good...
...Peter the Great "was only great in driving force . . . probably the greatest beast who ever wore a crown." When his wife took a lover Peter had his head chopped off and placed in her bedroom preserved in alcohol. He also "developed a taste for whipping young girls in their teens." Gerhardi thinks him far less responsible than history has made him for "hacking out a window into Europe"; gives evidence of his cowardice in battle, his lack of military talent...