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...swan-song speech in Salzburg, Herr Funk bore this inference out: "The National Socialist Government declines to cover war costs by means of the printing press." He urged rather popular savings, not of Sachwerte (real wealth) but of marks and pfennigs. "Some people are hoarding even bathtubs, although they can neither eat them, wear them around their necks, nor pay taxes with them." Why Herr Funk put taxes in a class with food and adornment, as something every good German should enjoy, was made clear by his hints that the Government might soon have to levy some new taxes. Best...
...linings are so scored by hot, high-pressure gases in the split-second of explosion that they become inaccurate. Such guns must be cooled between shots or their barrels, superheated, will sag at the muzzle. Between shots, too, their gunners must calculate (from a pressure gauge communicating with the bore) how much to add to the charge to allow for progressive scoring and keep up the range...
...Reason, according to Critic Howard Rushmore: he refused to follow the party line in his review of Gone With the Wind. Told to write a blistering attack on Margaret Mitchell's $3,850,000 picture, Critic Rushmore (whose grandfather was a Confederate soldier) merely said it was a bore...
...Picture. No great shakes as literature, the novel had been dropped on the floor by most literary critics as soon as it dropped in their laps. They thought its love story a bore, its history sectional, its length pretentious, its writing as drab as a bolt of butternut shoddy. The destruction of the South's civilization in the War between the States, told as the case history of two plantation families, the red-blooded O'Haras and the blue-blooded Wilkeses, had been better told before. The overlapping loves of Scarlett O'Hara for Ashley Wilkes, Rhett...
...took the stage as Siegmund, leaped upon Hunding's dining-room table like a tomcat after a mouse. His singing, less athletic than his jumps, was fresh and youthful, with less of the buzz saw than most run-of-the-mill German-style tenoring. His semaphoric acting bore witness to his Navy training...