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...agency will sign contracts directly with the Army & Navy, then subcontract to little plants best equipped to do the work. Some midget factories will pool their facilities. In other cases SWPC will finance needed machinery and equipment (if it can be bought). If all these small plants were smokestack deep in war work, they might produce more than one-third as much as Detroit's amazing war giants...
...year-old battleship Arizona (Pennsylvania class, 32,600 tons), by a bomb that "literally passed down through the smokestack...
...Papens are Erbsälzer, Hereditary Salters of Werl & Neuwerk, an honor which in medieval days assured them a fine hereditary income. This they augmented in cruder capitalist times by discreet ties with those Rhenish Schlotbaronen (smokestack barons) who were later to line the pockets of Adolf Hitler. An expert horseman and gentleman jockey, Franz was early admitted into Germany's select Military Riding School. Six years after leaving school he was a captain on the General Staff. Photographs of Papen taken at that time show the young Erbsälzer looking straight into the camera with a characteristic...
...over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing stone collapsed, sent rubble crashing down...
...like a village of criss-crossed highways, farm buildings, fields and forests. Easiest to camouflage, says Mr. Stafford, is a flat-roofed building in wooded countryside, over which a continuation of the woods may be painted; hardest is a tall building by a river, especially one with a big smokestack. Impossible to make look like something else are the Gothic-towered Houses of Parliament...