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...Japanese militarists, occupation of French Indo-China was a delightful prospect. It would shorten both the long faces of discouraged civilians at home and the China campaign-by cutting Chiang Kai-shek's chief supply lines. If & when the U. S. Fleet were shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Japan could begin her long-planned campaign to drive the white man from all Asia...
...able to announce that production in some plants had risen 100% in the past fortnight. But that could be only the beginning. The catastrophe in Flanders had stripped the British forces of nearly all their materiel. A munitions shortage like that of 1915 was a possibility. "I want to shorten the war," boomed Ernie. "I believe it can be shortened, but nothing but metal will...
...their tiny, sixth-floor offices at 1 East 57th St., Betsy Blackwell's editorial staff of 15 are beginning to feel cramped. As soon as they are sure that Mademoiselle is no fly-by-night lady, they intend to shorten her name to Mlle. Meanwhile, they call her Milly...
...Prime Minister's home-front theme: "What are we to do to win and if possible, shorten this war? We must save; we must control imports; we must do without commodities that are not necessary; we must, if required, ration them in order that all may share and share alike." [Applause.] Mr. Chamberlain called the present stage of hostilities the "quiet of the calm before the storm," warned that Britain "shall have to face a phase of this war much grimmer than anything we have seen yet." He wound up: "In his recent message to the Pope, the President...
...referring to your brief but brutal description of Ted Malone (TIME, Oct. 30). I admit his hair is thinning in front, but you scarcely notice it because of his gray-blue eyes that twinkle one minute, go dreamy the next. I admit, too, that if he could shorten his belt a couple of inches he'd look as young as he is instead of older. But personality plus and a million-dollar-smile make the belt line unimportant...