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...Prize that Walther von Brauchitsch had won for Germany was, from a military standpoint, well worth its cost in men and machines. "At almost the precise moment" that England blockaded Germany, as Field Marshal Goring remarked last fortnight, Germany got her hands on Poland's rich coal fields. Poland's production of 36,000,000 tons a year will increase the Reich's coal supply to some 220,000,000 tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little...
...nations which may be lined up against each other can be guessed, it is possible to make a reasonably accurate estimate of their fighting strength in men, guns, ships, planes. But such an estimate though quantitatively correct may be in total error from the qualitative standpoint...
Speaking from the technical standpoint, there is no doubt one of the finest. Though every music magazine in the country has taken a shot at explaining his "Apple Annie" method of blowing out his checks while playing (distinctly unorthodox), or panning him for it, the still true that he has good tone and really gets around on his horn...
This exhibition, besides being rich in almost every department of art (TIME, March 6), surprised the authorities by drawing 169,260 visitors at 25? each up to April 15 (the Sally Rand Dnude Ranch drew 228,356). Sharp-eyed Guard Seymour nevertheless found plenty to criticize from the standpoint of the common man, whom he denominated Joe Bloake and furnished with a wife and four children. Main points...
...From the standpoint of the greatest number of arrests-both felony and misdemeanor-hopheads, gambling joints, "hook-shops" (mostly girls on "call" or working out of their own apartments), TIME'S area is probably San Francisco's toughest. It is an area that seems to sleep in the daytime in order to teem with activity at night...