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...Spanish Revolution for its indestructible Madrid office building.* Telefónica has been doing all right, although not for its parent. The state of I.T. & T.'s $40,000,000 investment in the European properties of International Standard Electric is more obscure: its manufacturing plants in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France are now presumably working for Hitler. But the prospects when peace comes are all on I.T. & T.'s side of the ledger...
Sergeant Dennis Smith, R.A.F., stood in the doorway of his burning bomber and looked down on northern Holland. Behind him in the plane lay his friend, Flight Sergeant Ernest Salway, badly wounded, his parachute burned. Smith knew his parachute was built to carry 250 pounds, knew that two men with equipment weigh nearly twice as much. But, hoisting his wounded friend onto his back, he jumped. The chute snapped open, held-but Smith lost his grip on his friend, saw him plummet to his death. When Smith floated down to earth, he was taken prisoner. Last week, for a brave...
LONDON -- Royal Air Force Whirl-winds attacked the German airfield at Maupertus, France, this afternoon, the Air Ministry announced, and Mosquito bombers raided factories at Hendelo, Holland, and near Liege, Belgium. Escorting Spitfires destroyed one enemy fighter. No British planes were missing...
...potential was huge, and the Germans eventually would have realized it to the full. To boost future output, Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi Administrator for the eastern territories, had organized The Netherlands East Company, and had begun moving the first of 3,000,000 Dutchmen (one-third of the nation) from Holland to the Ukraine. The plan has met with little success...
...British film to keep anyone's fists clenched and at the same time there's no Errol Flynn or take heroism. Add excellent, tight acting and real dialogue, and the result is a perfect war picture. It's the taut story of one English bomber crew, forced down over Holland, and its eventual escape with the aid of Dutch civilians. With little of the shooting and grunting of Errol's "Dangerous Journey", it is stronger on the human side, and that makes it a distinguished movie...