Word: lullingly
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From the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini last week (see p. 21) welled ominous indications that a new campaign was about to be launched-possibly in a matter of a few days. The big question was where. The war, slowing to a lull in the Balkans and in Greece, bogging down in a seven-day sandstorm at Tobruch, flaming fitfully in the ragged weather over Britain, gave little clue. But the British, sure trouble was coming, thought they knew the answer (see below). Meanwhile the important military news of the week was the story of the battle...
After a normal holiday lull, the steel industry was at capacity again last week, and new orders were piling up faster than ever. Automakers competed in the market. Pennsylvania Railroad announced a car-building program ($17,500,000 worth) that would require some 80,000 tons of steel; Union Pacific announced one almost as large. Steel's backlog grew bigger than ever, pushed delivery dates on new orders well into 1941's second quarter. Hence one of the hottest questions in Washington-should steel expand its capacity?-grew hotter than ever...
...camps on the Channel coast. At Cap Gris Nez, near the long-range guns which sporadically hurl shells into England, he told his men: "The Channel will protect England only so long as it suits us." Führer Hitler was also at the Western Front during the holiday lull, exhorting his troops and talking darkly about mighty efforts to come...
...Britain, her first in the war, even well-informed Londoners guessed it was not decisive. It was equally hard to see how the Greek invasion of Albania could be decisive. The best the Greeks could do would be to get all of Albania, and last week's lull suggested that this was pretty much to hope...
...Deal (and, incidentally, John Lewis' recent allies further to the right) what to expect. His warning: that workers will not base their wage demands on the cost of living only; what they want is a share of mounting defense profits too. His explanation of the recent lull in strikes: union agreements in basic industries (coal, autos) have not yet expired. Next spring, promised Mr. Pressman, the fireworks will be resumed...