Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little better off than she was before, for the Saar's 13,500,000 tons of coal are of a much better grade than Silesia...
...imports were 4,000,000 tons, and to run her war machine she will probably need 8,000,000 tons. Even a light French motorized division needs 423 gallons of gasoline to move a mile, and Germany's Panzerdimsionen with tanks and armored trucks burn many times that much fuel. Darting in and out, operating far from base and covering scores of miles on each raid, their refueling problem becomes tremendous. If Germany is to fight a long war, she must get still more...
...Black Osprey was permitted to clear with all her cargo for Antwerp and Rotterdam, the British explaining that "it was not fully established that Germany was the destination and the items themselves were proved to be unimportant in quantity." Snorted President Sudman: "I imagine the publicity was too much for them...
...threat: to make ASCAP shave its fees in radio's 1941 contract. If fees are revised, Broadcast Music, Inc., will be dissolved. If not, NAB members expect to hand ASCAP a shellacking by 1) refusing to plug any ASCAP songs, including those from movies, producer of much of today's hit music; 2) signing up as many new tunesters and renegade ASCAP-ers as possible; 3) producing its own future Hold Tights, Three Little Fishies, Well All Right...
Back in court was tomato-nosed Funnyman W. C. Fields, trying again to sidestep payment of Dr. Jesse Citron's $12,000 fee for treating a bad case of broncho-pneumonia in 1936. In the first trial the doctor claimed that Fields got sick from drinking too much ("about two quarts a day"). Said Funnyman Fields: "It was two other diseases. I've never been sick from drinking whiskey...