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...hold until the next thrust at Moscow, planned for the coming of warm weather. But Soviet military leaders claimed that German morale faltered as Red strategists dusted off guerrilla techniques unused since the first Finnish campaign: ski troops to scourge the ski-less, fleeing enemy; night raiders to swoop down on exhausted, sleeping soldiers; propeller-driven sleds mounting cannon and machine guns...
...swoop last week war blacked out three of California's brightest sport attractions: Pasadena's Rose Bowl football classic, San Francisco's East-West all-star game and the opening of Santa Anita, world's richest horse-race meeting. While California businessmen mourned the loss of a possible $20,000,000, the citizens of New Orleans cheered and chortled...
Incoming passengers on the American liner watched the planes swoop down over Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field, commended the U.S. Navy's thoughtfulness in staging a big-scale war game on Sunday morning. An American automobile salesman, en route to Tientsin, gawked admiringly as a bomb whooshed into the harbor a scant 100 yards away: "Boy! What if that had been a real one?" The perspiring ship's officer who finally broke the bad news flubbed his lines: "It seems there's a state of undeclared war between Honolulu and the United States...
...machine guns. Their tight-clipped wings coddled four ,303-caliber machine guns. Their pilots sat in a comforting body of armor. Up above the two-mile mark they hunted for their first live targets. But no Messerschmitts appeared. The Airacobras waited a while, then turned homeward in a grey swoop. On the way the commander could not resist trying out his deadly new toys. He brought the squadron low over a French port. Said he, when the Airacobras were safely home again: "We made a German ship unhappy and brushed some Germans off a wharf...
Canada last week took care that World War II would not follow the economic pattern of World War I. Like the U.S. and most other countries, Canada was unprepared for the soaring inflation of the first World War, or for the sick swoop of depression that followed...