Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fuel consumption of this campaign amounted to only a fraction of [German] monthly production." With a stiff, heel-clicking bow from the waist to the Nazi Party, the Army High Command observed that in Poland spade-wielding young stalwarts of the Nazi Labor Service "made the task of leadership much easier. ... In the re-establishment of streets, bridges and railways ... the Labor Service particularly proved its worth...
Belgium was suspiciously alert last week but denied having taken yet her most drastic defense step of all: pulling plugs in the Albert Canal to impede any German advance with a flood. The Dutch, however, did say they were flooding their country, at least experimentally, around Utrecht. Much weaker than the 'Belgians in fortifications along their frontier, the Dutch prepared if necessary to open their Zuider Zee dikes and inundate most of their central provinces, abandoning their entire northeast to the invader and taking national refuge in the Rotterdam-Utrecht-Amsterdam triangle. To give their waters time to rise...
...most German pilots captured were youths of 19, 20, 21. The seasoned Nazi Condor squadron of Spanish Civil War fame was reported to have reached the Western Front from Poland. French pilots claimed to have proved that their U. S.-built Curtiss pursuit ships will outfly the Nazis' much-touted Messerschmidts...
...Leonard Sillman). Broadway's 1939-40 season opened last week extremely late but extremely aptly: with a revival of one of the two most famous plays (the other: What Price Glory?) about World War I. But despite its timeliness, to most Broadway critics Journey's End seemed much less remarkable than when first produced here ten years ago. Contrasted with the millions now in arms all over Europe, a handful of British officers quaking in a 1918 dugout seemed inexpressive, minuscule...
...since the outbreak of war, took to the sea again on schedule, but avoided such danger ports as Cannes and Gibraltar. Holland-America was still running full tilt, but on the eastbound trip sailed directly to Antwerp and Rotterdam. Swedish American cautiously shifted to more northerly routes, tacking as much as two days to its timetable...