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...most U. S. citizens know, German designs on the New World have their primary focus in South America. There a network of Nazi airlines twists and twines, like the tentacles of a determined octopus over 23,000 miles of strategic routes (South American mileage of Pan Am & affiliates: 26,000 miles). Owned or controlled by huge Deutsche Lufthansa, they operate at a considerable financial loss. But their pilots fly for the Fatherland, not for pfennigs. Lufthansa and her keen-eyed brood are 1) the arteries of German propaganda taken from Wilhelmstrasse to Rio by the Italian airline Lati...
...Make Bright the Arrows Millay lashes out at the warring world like a lady octopus caught in a whirlpool. Giving her native impetuosity and her Vassar graduate's well-educated illusions and disillusions free play, she writes her verses mostly in three ill-assorted styles...
...planes and material into the breach in order to help the British in their fight to stave off invasion. But that phase of the war is at an end. Already there is talk of counter-attack by England. Yet it is plain that England can never dislodge the German octopus from the continent of Europe without American aid--millions of American men to fight on the beaches of Brittany and the Channel coast, as well as American ships and planes. And it is equally plain that this is just the role that America is being made ready to play--"when...
Built up into an octopus of politics and patronage holding the police, posts and telegraphs, reconstruction of devastated regions and immigration under the control of the Dictator's brother-in-law, Don Ramón Serrano Suñer, it was taken away from him and vested in Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself...
...Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...