Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Lake Wawasee, Indiana, at the Indiana Federation of Clubs Convention, alert Paul Gray Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp.. last week spoke his mind on patriotism, and spoke it well...
Last week he looked tired. But weariness sat on him lightly, like a film of ash over a smoldering fire. Powerful, solid, imperturbable, he sat at his desk with an air of utter confidence-the alert, nonchalant confidence of a skilled worker moving swiftly in a routine task. The crushing responsibilities of 1940 he wore as familiarly, as easily as his speckly seersucker suit, buttoned into thick wrinkles over his paunch...
Paris itself was declared part of the Army zone. Busses disappeared, crowds were forbidden even on cafe terraces, walking on the public highway was not allowed, "except for the performance of a public mission." Alert for signs of a Fifth Column, authorities posted guards at each of Paris' gates, interned all German nationals (Nazis and anti-Nazis alike) in two huge bicycle-racing arenas, prepared to apply sternly Premier Reynaud's threat that "for every weakness there will be the penalty of death...
Execution. How elastic was the German plan of invasion, how alert and audacious its execution, was seen when the campaign's only major slip-up occurred. The destruction of the cruisers Emden and Blücher by unquisled Norse in Oslo Fjord so seriously disrupted matters that no more Nazi troops landed in Oslo Fjord by ship for two and one-half days. Without batting an eye, General von Falkenhorst, who had meantime alighted on the Oslo airport with a battalion, proceeded to bring more troops into the Oslo district the same way he got there: by Junkers transports...
Next year, oil's flexible refining technology will be used with a more alert weather eye to adjust fuel oil-gasoline ratios more nearly to fit demand. Oilmen can only wait to see what war will bring by way of an export market. But always dependable are U. S. motorists; last week their demand for gasoline was up about 6% over 1939. Yet oilmen still had small reason to hope that rising U. S. consumption would knock the hump out of gasoline's inventory curve. Nor were war and winter alone to blame. More important than either...