Word: massed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitman, Mass...
Adolf Hitler's generals know what they are about. They have studied their Erich Ludendorff and their Giulio Douhet (an Italian theoretician who says that modern war must be fought with mass air attacks). They knew that their advance into Poland would be a pushover. Nevertheless their tactic was a Ludendorff infiltration, modified to suit a mechanized army. Long steel fingers reached into Poland's flesh, then clamped together and squeezed the blood out. This they did with speed which was only less amazing than their efficiency...
...call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered, Announcer Ben Grauer shouts "Stop, stop, Horace!" When Horace stopped the first week, Grauer called into the telephone of Frank J. Drouin, a wood carver of Andover, Mass.: "Sonny, get your father to the telephone. We have good news." When Mr. Drouin came on, Grauer told him: "This is the Horace Heidt program. I am happy to tell you that the sponsors, the makers of Turns, are making you a present of $1,000, and we are sending you the money...
...University Tutors, which was founded in 1931 by Joseph Hurwitz, failed to open its doors this fall. It was the first tutoring school to adopt the practice of mass reviews after William "The Widow" Nelen died. It was also the first school to use high-powered salesmanship methods and extensive advertising...
Briggs has rarely advertised and his school had never given a mass review. All tutoring was done privately in a manner very much like the new Bureau of Supervision. Briggs himself devoted most of his time to tutoring students sent to him by the German Department...