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...welter of sketchy bulletins, counter-claims and unpronounceable names (see col. j) flowing from Poland, the broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia (see map, p. 19). It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take and keep this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines for the time being. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil or consider himself at war with them, he determined on the complete shattering...
Billie Holiday is a roly-poly young colored woman with a hump in her voice. Dance-hall crowds have heard her with Count Basie's Orchestra, radio audiences with Artie Shaw. She does not care enough about her figure to watch her diet, but she loves to sing. She also likes to listen to records of her singing...
Died. Colonel Frank Emerson De Long, 75, inventor of a hook-&-eye fastener ("See That Hump?"); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach...
...Commerce. Credit for putting two & two together is given to Air-enthusiast Henry Eickhoff Jr., who began thumping in 1933 for an exposition along with the airport, on the ground that each would help build the other. Three years more and a fleet of dredges appeared off the wooded hump of Yerba Buena Island between San Francisco and Oakland and began pumping black sand from the Bay bottom, slopping it over Yerba Buena shoals. With the help of Army engineers, WPA labor and a grant of $6,250,000 from the Federal Government, a mile-long island was sucked from...
...their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They had a hunch that if man could carry around a substantial, fairly permanent store of extra hormones, his body would absorb as large an amount as was physically possible; just as a camel gradually draws energy from his hump...