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...Invasion-the first novel to show what the War was like for civilians caught behind the German lines. Invasion's scene is the district around Lille, in northern France, a narrow strip between the Belgian border and the trenches of the Western Front. In that crowded industrial area, in 1914, were three towns, a dozen villages, hundreds of thousands of people. Invasion's principal characters number more than 50, represent every type of noncombatant, every fortune of war. In 707 pages Author van der Meersch tells their grim four-year tale, from the first days of the invasion...
...last year. On the British Gold Coast, whose Accra beans make up the largest proportion of the crop, an early season drought deprived trees of needed moisture. Cocoa figures are notoriously hard to get but when harvest time came on the Gold Coast in October, crop estimate for that area dropped from 260,000 ton to 235,000. In Brazil, whose bahia crop is the world's second largest, plantations were kept up better during cocoa's dark days, and total world shipments actually rose from 542,000 tons...
...sound of tinkling glass followed and no light wines and vermouth proceeded to trickle over the area in front of the good deans' offices...
...face Britain and Italy agree that ships of both countries have "freedom of entry to, exit from and transit through the Mediterranean" and they "disclaim any desire to modify, or, so far as they are concerned, to see modified the status quo as regards national sovereignty in the Mediterranean area...
...Mutual net work. On June 1, 1935 M. B. S. began trading sustaining programs with the Canadian Radio Commission, and in September added CKLW (Windsor, Ont.) to the network. Canadian programs gave U. S. listeners variety and CKLW gave M. B. S. a powerful station in the Detroit area...