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...independence. General Dusan Simovitch, Chief of the Air Force, was one of these. But War Minister Pesitch was old and frightened; he would not give the order. On whether the Army obeyed its leaders, or revolted under its younger officers, depended the fate of the last and hardest neutral nut that Hitler has tried to crack with his pincers...
Meanwhile King-size cigarets multiplied like brands of beer in 1933. Hill lengthened another of his own lagging brands, Herbert Tareyton, watched its sales jump to 1,800,000,000 last year. Brown & Williamson's Wings adopted the new size, so did Spuds (Axton-Fisher), Beech-Nut (P. Lorillard), Dunhill (Philip Morris). Other makers thought up new names: Stratford (Fleming-Hall Co., Inc.), Cinclair (A. Ladis Tobacco Co.), Melowicks (Strand Tobacco Co.), etc. Out of 180,000,000,000 cigarets sold last year, the King size accounted for about...
...told his Brownshirts that they had been fighting the Jews and the bankers for exactly 21 years, since the Party held its first meeting. Neither bothered to mention the fact that during most of these two decades Hitler thought Mussolini was a windbag and Benito thought Adolf was a nut...
...fortifications, believes that she will be in real trouble if she loses Singapore. The base there is the key is the sea lanes of the East, and the nation which holds it is wholly capable of taking India, and the Dutch Indies. Australia, although vulnerable, would be a harder nut to crack as it has also a Southern entrance...
...whole the outlook for the Exeter meet is fair, although predictions cannot be made. Yale will be a tougher nut to crack, as the Elis are said to have a bang-up team this year...