Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With building costs flexible up but not down, material-makers have priced themselves out of the market. More than half the U. S. citizenry cannot afford a home costing more than $4,000-last year only 15% of all homes built were in that price range, and that figure was attained only through substantial Government aid-Federal, State, municipal...
...line no longer holds, the next retreat is to Amsterdam, leaving a flooded area from Ijssel Lake to the Waal and Maas Rivers to protect the western heart of the country including Utrecht and Rotterdam. Stranded in the middle of this flood would be the ex-Kaiser's home at Doom. Another secondary defense line would back up the main water line, running southwest from Utrecht to Breda, near the Belgian border...
Next most important claim of last week was that the British Home Fleet was not in Scapa Flow; had not been there, in good probability, since before Royal Oak was sunk by Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's submarine raid. Testator to this probability was First Flying Lieutenant Hermann von Bülow of the German Air Force, who explained in Berlin that the air raid on Scapa Flow, three days after Royal Oak was torpedoed, was a "cleanup job" left to his crowd by the Nazi naval arm. Said...
...found hardly anything worth bombing. When we appeared over Scapa Flow, we found it deserted. The entire British Fleet had fled from the harbor to west English ports or more distant points.* We had to be content with an attack on the Iron Duke in order not to return home without having carried out any actions...
Most of last week's European happenings were bad news for Germany. Her friends became increasingly critical. Her allies appeared lukewarm, if not positively fickle. Her enemies were unsparing, and, after the Munich bombing, her home front appeared far from secure. In sum, it looked as though Nazi Germany, having long feared and dreaded encirclement, had managed to kick herself in her domestic stomach and encircle herself...