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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of men of Plan B is made more significant by the fact that 12 fields of concentration have not adopted the modified program. With the exception of History and Literature, these fields are comparatively small, with no more than 18 concentrators in any one of them...
Replied the Führer: "If formerly the behavior of the Czechoslovak Government was brutal, it can only be described during recent weeks and days as madness. ... In a few weeks the number of [Sudeten] refugees who have been driven out of [Czechoslovakia] has risen to 120,000. This situation as stated above is unbearable and will be terminated...
...March issue, noting that "the laws of Gravity haven't been repealed," cited a few warning examples of the treachery of March winds and told what to do about them, there was a flurry of grateful new subscribers. There was another marked customer response to the June number, which explained the dampening effect of hot, thin summer air on engine power, propeller thrust and wing lift; the consequent higher stalling speed; the atmospheric didos to be expected; the effect of heat on pilot reactions. But Air Facts' main theme is the folly of "slow-low" flying: "When...
Some such fascination as draws Spaniards to bull fights draws a large, weekly audience to NEC's five-month-old questionnaire program, Information Please. A number of powerful minds are let into the ring, are baited, stung, encouraged, wounded, sometimes left unscathed by a series of pointed questions. Matador of this intellectual bull session is sharp-witted Clifton Fadiman, book reviewer for The New Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice Duer Miller...
...almost exclusively about sexual outrages, bedroom gossip and scandal, is read in the schools to children between 6 and 14." Copies hang on classroom walls. Result: "Pupils have become possessed by pathological sexual aberrations." Nazi children are taught that motherhood is a duty, even of unmarried women, and "the number of illegitimate pregnancies and births among the members of the State Youth is tremendous." There is even a standard form for applications by youthful fathers to be declared of age so they can marry their mistresses...