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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yeah," said Mr. Keltner, shifting his gum. "I'm broke...
Promised for Cleveland's relief were 17 carloads of surplus commodities from the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., 6,000 new WPA jobs. But-"We already are receiving from ten to twelve carloads a day and it is not going very far," said Sidney T. Rowley, assistant relief commissioner. As for the WPA jobs, WPA Director Frank T. Miskell announced there were no new projects available, and few of the 16,000 were even fit for WPA work...
...Viipuri Province (formerly Karelia). Here the Russians evidently advanced in close formation for the Finns told of shooting down two entire companies (800 men) with "machine pistols," a Chicago-type sawed-off machine gun, reputedly capable of 250 rounds per minute. A Finnish soldier, speaking over the radio, said: "I don't believe the Russians are used to us seal shooters. Compared to a seal's head in the water, they [Russians] are almost too big a target. You hardly know where...
...Russia was ready to hurl against the Mannerheim Line and the other three points of resistance, but the first few days' fighting sounded more like regiments than divisions, a series of holding attacks to fix the defenders in positions, set them up for more crushing blows. The Finns said 40,000 of their men were standing off 80,000 Russians. Except at the Mannerheim Line, which the Salmi and Suojärvi attacks were evidently calculated to outflank, Finnish tactics were guerrilla retreat, using forests and lakes (not yet frozen solid) for cover and obstacles...
...close to shore. Chief disadvantage of the Finns is in the air, whence plenty of hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first two days with shooting down single handed six Red bombers. Finland was said to have lost only two planes in the first four days. But even blunderers must prevail when the air odds are 36 to one (the odds of roulette, without any zeros), if only by blasting out the defender's landing fields. In leaflets dumped on Helsinki, the Russians threatened mass bombing...