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...Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the Battle of Britain might have to be won on the ploughed fields of an island traditionally never more than a hop, skip & amp; a jump ahead of starvation. Into the fields last week Britain sent all her schoolchildren, rich & poor alike. The farming problem was acute...
...Ever scientific, the German radio has made use of the well-known skip in short waves (they travel in a series of bounces, hundreds of miles long, between the earth and an ionized upper stratum of atmosphere) to make Midwesterners wonder whether they harbored a disloyal station. "Station D-E-B-U-N-K," when picked up around Chicago on the earthward bounce, was heard referring to European stations as "over there" and urging folks to "fight the dictatorship . . . in Washington." FCC triangulations located it in western Europe...
There were many subjects that Adolf Hitler skipped in this week's speech to the Reichstag. He did not skip the cold Russian winter, and underlined the fact that the thermometer had dropped to 62° F below. He got in the "archcapitalist" British, the "scoundrel" Jews, the "criminal" Churchill, the "maniac" Roosevelt, the "heroic" Japanese, and the Almighty, of whom he asked "nothing more . . . than that He should bless us in the future as He has done in the past...
...adequately given by Darrah and after midyears Hisaw, Harvard's edition of Will Rogers. This is a remarkably complete course, and men who thought they had enough prerequisites to skip it have regretted its omission...
...planes over the South Atlantic to Africa; over the Pacific to U.S. outposts, to China, the Dutch East Indies and Australia. The U.S.-Africa run was started only four months ago by veteran over-water flyers -mostly from Pan American Airways. Planes now take off from Florida, hop-skip across the West Indies to steaming Brazilian airports, then jump 1,700 miles to Africa's wild & woolly Gold Coast...