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Wall Streeters watched tensely last week as the biggest internal fight in many a year got hotter & hotter. The battlers: the New York Stock Exchange v. a powerful phalanx of nonmember investment bankers. The battle: Should large blocks of listed stock be sold on or off the floor of the exchange...
Present. The striking forces which Air Marshal Harris sends into battle are so concentrated as to change, not only the scale, but the nature of aerial warfare-just as the Greek phalanx changed the nature of foot warfare in its day. Last week Air Marshal Harris' forces were unprecedented. After the Cologne raid (1,130 planes), the R.A.F. swept France (1,000), struck Essen (1,036), swept France (200), bombed Bremen (200), swept the Channel coast (500), revisited the Ruhr (about 200), hit Emden (perhaps 200), and fanned out to smaller objectives (over 2,000). Altogether Air Marshal Harris...
...enemies of our democratic way will find us one unbreakable phalanx in which class, creed and petty politics are forgotten...
Blocking Moves. Fighting next settled down to a duel of attrition. The British stuck by their original bet-that if they could isolate the Germans east of Tobruk, they would eventually wear them down. The German tactic was to join all forces into one phalanx of machinery (south of Gambut) and take on the smaller British units one by one. Because the British were trying to maintain an encirclement, they necessarily had to scatter their forces. This gave the Germans, concentrating the remnants of one Italian and two German mechanized divisions, the advantage of being able to attack a brigade...
...Toledoans got sore. In the Hotel Secor ballroom last week they formed a solid labor-capital phalanx. Chunky, aggressive Charles E. Swartzbaugh (electrical appliances) was there with representatives of 88 other Toledo firms. Kenneth Cole of C.I.O., John M. Froehlich of A.F. of L., Earl Streeter of the Mechanics' Educational Society were there...