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With 1,500,000 Germans armed, mobilized and ready at the frontiers of their country to attack or defend, Adolf Hitler mobilized another 1,500,000 Germans in Nürnberg last week. He then proceeded to turn the annual Nazi Party Congress into a great, step-by-step building of war fright throughout Europe. The evident object was to bluff Czechoslovakia and her friends into the best possible deal for the Sudeten Germans and give Hitler another triumph to flash before his people...
Colonel McEntee's Military History of the World War is a huge volume of 583 large pages, complete with 459 maps, charts and time schedules of battles. Its main contribution is its pictorial demonstrations of both original plans for battles and step-by-step diagrams of the way they worked out. Thus Colonel McEntee exhaustively describes the original von Schlieffen Plan that called for invasion of Belgium, uses nine maps to show what happened when the Marne was reached and changes in the Plan had weakened the German forces. Relying heavily on official reports. Colonel McEntee writes...
...Senate's Economy Committee, with President Hoover's aid & counsel, produced an omnibus bill to cut costs by about $238,000,000. The step-by-step shrinking process on the Senate floor: Lost Savings Reason...
...Lindbergh's known movements throughout the week indicated step-by-step the course of his negotiations with the criminals and their subsequent collapse. Early last week he and his lawyer. Col. Henry Breckinridge, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, hopped over the back fence at Newark Airport, flew away in a borrowed airplane and were reported some time later inquiring on Cuttyhunk Island. Mass, for a yacht known as the Sally or the Nellie. Next day they borrowed another plane, made a similar flight over the same area. It was 48 hours after these trips that the Treasury Department...
Bell Laboratories developed the panel dialing system, first installed it extensively in 1919. The Bell telephone companies (16 million telephones) also use a step-by-step system, through certain patent agreements with Automatic Electric Inc. By other reciprocal patent agreements, other manufacturers are enabled to make variants of the basic dialing systems, offering their wares to independent telephone companies (four million instruments...