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When war came, he gave plenty of soldiers the fatal chance. He was not one to hoard lives. In Poland he had to do more fighting than General Gerd von Rundstedt, but by losing far more men he went just as fast. In France, too, his central armies of Group B suffered relatively high casualties. In Russia he won Germany's greatest victories (Bialystok-Minsk, Smolensk, Bryansk-Vyazma) and suffered the greatest losses. Last week he was still sending men to glorious, spendthrift death...
...Using some of the Treasury's 100,000-ton hoard of silver as a substitute for copper in electrical machinery...
...This hoard of modern art came from the rambling West Redding, Conn. farm house of a 64-year-old spinster named Katherine S. Dreier who has painted, collected and talked about modern art for almost 30 years. One of modern art's U.S. pioneer converts, massive, hemp-haired Katherine Dreier stored away abstractions like a Connecticut squirrel hoarding nuts for a hard winter. Other later and richer art squirrels sometimes, got bigger and tastier nuts than Katherine. But her hoard contained more different kinds than any body else's in the U.S. Unable to house it properly...
...Leningrad, Germany's official foreign news service, Dienst aus Deutschland, indicated last week that the German High Command was satisfied to hoard this hard nut and not try to crack it. "A prestige attack on this city, in which probably every cellar is loaded with dynamite, would demand sacrifices that cannot be justified, for our really decisive forces are needed on another front...
...have now cost the Government (including carrying charges) 12.2? a Ib. Now CCC can swap part of these holdings for hard cash. Besides a small profit, the corporation will also get the last laugh on the experts who in 1940 predicted the U.S. would end by burning its cotton hoard...