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When portly O. P. Van Sweringen finally bought control of Missouri Pacific R. R. for his top-heavy Alleghany Corp. in 1930 he was tickled pink. The word that more than 50% of MOP stock was his reached him in the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. Beaming all over, O. P. dashed out of the place and around the corner to Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to tell MOP's bankers he was the new boss...
...promise of MOP as a money-maker was as hollow as 1930's promise of a chicken in every pot. Three years later MOP was in the hands of a trustee in bankruptcy. Long before O. P. died he would have been glad to get back the $70,000,000 he spent buying into the No. 3 U. S. railroad (by mileage). Last month Alleghany Corp. (now controlled by Glass-Jar Tycoon George Alexander Ball) sold out 150,000 shares of O. P.'s preferred stock to establish a tax loss. They had cost an average...
...Russia's would-be Blitzkrieg. What possessed Joe Stalin to hurl such cannon fodder at the well-trained Finns could only be guessed. Perhaps he thought cannon fodder could win. Perhaps he is trying to wear down Finnish resistance with inferior troops, saving his best troops to mop up. In any case, by this week fresh thousands of Russians had been thrown into battle on three fronts, attacking the Finns day & night, in wave after wave, trying by sheer force of numbers to beat down their resistance...
...Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. But until two years ago, when he became Hitler's favorite singer, he was practically unknown in the U. S. Egg-bald Laholm, 40, an ex-boxer and heavyweight title holder in the U. S. Navy, exchanged his everyday toupee for a luxuriant blond Nibelung mop and took the stage as Siegmund, leaped upon Hunding's dining-room table like a tomcat after a mouse. His singing, less athletic than his jumps, was fresh and youthful, with less of the buzz saw than most run-of-the-mill German-style tenoring. His semaphoric acting bore...
...around the 20% Axiom, General Erich Ludendorff invented the tactic of "infiltration," opposed to previous mop-as-you-go theories. He postulated that when various parts of an advancing line meet heavy resistance, they should halt; the others, finding weakness, should penetrate and, as the surrounded enemy capitulates, join forces beyond. Usable in big or little units, infiltration was the plan of Ludendorff's big push on March 21, 1918, which almost licked the Allies...