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...flag is the Cross of Lorraine, red, with two horizontal bars on a white field. Motto of De Gaulle's "Free Frenchmen": Honor & Country, Valor & Discipline. *Germany estimated the Allied bill for upkeep of their 1918-30 Armies of Occupation...
...Guilt. Last week there were fresh signs that the Germans were making no easy deals. They submitted their bill for the upkeep of their Army of Occupation: $8,000,000 a day.* When a die-hard patriot of Nantes cut the cable line into the city, the Germans slapped a $100,000 fine on Nantes...
Picturesquely perched on a sandstone bluff above the Straight River, in whose caves the Fleck brewery has been aging beer since Shattuck was a pup, Shattuck makes Christian soldiers every year of some 200 boys who hail from far & wide, pay $1,000 a year for their tuition and upkeep. One of the six military schools in the country which has never had an honor graduate separated from West Point, Shattuck drills its boys as smartly in the classroom as on the parade ground. Shattuck boys call themselves Shads, their food "garbage," the girls of nearby St. Mary...
...would have to pay for upkeep of the fleet, in the long run might even have to provide manpower for replacements of battle casualties...
Citing the advantages of using such a machine powered by the sun's rays, Dr. Abbot pointed out the low cost of upkeep. Although at present its costs are about the same as those of a coal engine, one-half cent per horsepower hour, if the machines could be made in large quantities there would be no fuel charges...