Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Britain is organizing to meet the air threat. Her air armada-pursuit planes, fast Handley Page Hampden bombers-is rapidly being increased as her manufacturing program begins to hit a good stride. The Royal Air Force is equal in morale to the German, its older pilots have had longer training. The British Army's mechanized units (tanks, armored cars), although too few for war strength, are the most advanced in the world. And its officers-neither scholars like the French nor technicians like the Germans-are excellent leaders of men, if only rule-of-thumb strategists...
...Saturday Evening Post and was considered an intelligent journalist, but she was a reporter and no pundit. Then, in March 1936, Mrs. Ogden Reid, super-clubwoman vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, hired her to write a column. It was to run on the same page as Lippmann's Today and Tomorrow, three times a week, and it was expected to present the woman's point of view toward such public matters as women could be expected to grapple with...
...streamer at the head of page 1 bannered a new proposal for relief of the railroads: "Railroads Demand Mann Act Repeal...
...Wheat and Soldiers was not written to order for the Japanese Ministry of War, there is nothing in its 191-page saga devout patriotism to make samurai over in their urns. Anti-war in general, is certainly not anti-Japanese-war-in-China. Announcement that 500,000 have been sold is a backhanded way saying that Japanese are behind army. Sole resemblance to All Quiet the Western Front is that both books are about fighting...
...intriguing, traitorous Cousin Hubert, a British officer. Jamie hardly minded, but when Hubert's dark eye fell upon Purity Stiles, whom Jamie now loved, that was a different matter. Hubert framed Jamie on a treason charge, had Purity abducted, kept a couple of jumps ahead until, along about page 800, Jamie's luck began to change...