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...that poilus in the lower chamber can rest in comfort. "Comfort," as Marshal Pétain has said, "is of utmost strategic importance. The combative efficiency of the soldier is at least doubled when he can recuperate in comfort." Ergo, nearly every pillbox is equipped with electric lights, electric stove, a well, beds, running water and glistening latrines. On his visit to the forts last August Premier Daladier cried: "The shield is in place! It is of good metal!" Impressed by the amazing camouflage of many of the forts Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour shook his tousled white head, questioned...
...floor, will in itself cost $100,000. In addition every convenience is to be supplied the men. Each fireman will have a room to himself as in the dormitory system: a central radio will be hooked up to reach every room: a kitchen, equipped with an electric refrigerator, gas stove, and every necessary appliance. Another unforeseen, but worth while expenditure was the purchase of a new floodlight wagon which is to be stationed here...
...inhabitant, joining the crowd around the stove at the village store one nipping winter day, asserts that he can remember much colder weather, to prove it tells a Munchausenish yarn about an all-night fight culminating in a double murder. One of the skeptics is still unconvinced...
...Virginia Capes were the hurricane's next objective. Twenty-five miles off shore it swooped down upon the Old Dominion liner Madison, Norfolk-bound out of New York. A 70-ft. wave carried away the Madison's forward deck house, snapped her booms, stove in her ventilators, snatched off three lifeboats and flooded the cabins. The second mate and quartermaster were washed overside, two of the crew badly injured. Captain William Heath hove to, sent out an SOS. The 37 passengers were corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast...
...locked themselves in the basement rooms which include the larders and pantries. Friends of the Duchess, made curious by the telephone operator's explanation that Her Grace's telephone had been temporarily suspended, called to investigate. They returned with provisions, helped her cook meals on an oil stove. In the basement the three detectives lurked, presumably living off the fat of the Marlborough larder. For four days Gladys of Marlborough camped...