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...Scovill Manufacturing Co., facing a copper & brass fabricating (for ordnance) boom, had planned to help widen this possible bottleneck by selling $8,374,000 of new debentures and $15,000,000 of new capital stock, refund $7,850,000 of 5½% debentures at the same time...
Motorized Infantry, shock troops in armored trucks attached to the Attack Army, machine-gunners on armored motorcycles, followed the assault tanks. Behind them followed motorized field artillery. The job of these forces was to widen and hold the breach made, turn it over to ordinary infantry brought up behind. Maximum speed of the whole armored column was that of the break-through tanks: 18 m.p.h. But with each column, for special demolition duty and advance work, went 170-h.p. Diesel-powered medium tanks capable of 85 m.p.h. on roads, 50 m.p.h. across country on their caterpillar tracks. And the Germans...
...passed through that ailment once, and later when I was sober enough to reflect upon it I blushed purple for being so foolish. Now I know this for a fact that you will not stick to that first girl. As your contacts widen, you will meet someone "better" and then you say she is the for you. You will keep repeating this until you have crushed many flowers on your path to flame...
...long as this destructive nihilism continues, every weak state is in danger of disappearing, and America if she hopes to stay neutral, must steel her mind to see the theatre of war gradually widen over Europe. There is not much the United States can do. She can protest to Russia, declare her a belligerent and an aggressor but very little more. But what is important for us is to try to see the issues more clearly all the time, and maintain neutrality in action even though it is becoming more and more impossible to maintain it in thought. Meanwhile states...
Napoleon was not the first invader to come that way. Hannibal struck from the northwest and many times in the Middle Ages and Renaissance raiders poured through the funnel-like passes that widen and slope downward into Italy. In modern times no Army has invaded France from Italy, but although the Po and its tributaries form a series of defensive positions at which Italians could check invaders who penetrate the mountain barrier, at the western end of the valley lie Turin and, further east, Milan, Italy's chief industrial centres. If they should fall, Italy's war days...