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Commonwealth at War. Australia has done a pretty fast job of adapting her industries to her war needs. Basically a pastoral country, producing more than one-quarter of the world's wool, Australia had to switch quickly to heavy industry when war broke out. Already possessing the largest single plant dealing with alloys of steel in the world, the Commonwealth in two years stepped up steel production from 1,200,000 tons to 1,700,000 tons (U.S. production in 1940: 67,000,000 tons...
...conquering race about them. These Germans are dressed in thin great coats and tunics. They have no sweaters or only light ones and standard, unlined German service boots. Often they have no gloves. Sometimes they wear women's skirts or little pink and white striped jumpers or wool panties drawn over their trousers. All that is bad for the prim Prussian morale. The first thing that many Muscovites do in the morning is to rush to the thermometer and joyously call to their families: 'Twenty below; good for the Germans...
Admiral Yamamoto must have been trying a little Japanese wool-pulling when he surprised everyone at the London Naval Conference by defining the torpedo as a "defensive weapon." "Doesn't it depend, sir," asked a U.S. naval technician, "at which...
...last week he had almost finished. On his desk, hundreds of pink slips showed such "frozen" items as 20,000,000 lb. of copper sheets, ingots, wire, etc., 27,500,000 lb. of tin plate and 4,000,000 lb. of pig tin, "vast quantities" of rubber, silk, wool, hides, chemicals...
...Charlie trundles with a roar into the night. Then: "Hello, control. C for Charlie airborne 19:35 [7:35 p.m.]." On the raid, camera and sound track accompany a plane called F for Freddie and its crew of six. Theirs is an ominous journey-through cotton-wool clouds, across rivers like threads of dirty tinsel, above the grey, night-hung earth. The pilot-captain talks with his crew over the intercommunicating phone. To his Scottish navigator: "Hey, Mac, where are we now, as if you'd know?" Mac, indignantly: "I ken fine where we are. We're approaching...