Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Although it is fashionable to belittle Italian soldiering (Aduwa, Caporetto, Guadalajara), Italy has many troops whose valor and ability should not be underrated. As a result of the Spanish War she has thousands of seasoned officers and men. Besides the Piedmontese and Sardinians, her 50,000 Alpini are first-class, easily on a par with their cousins among the French and Bavarian crags. More spotty are the Arditi divisions, supposed to be shock troops picked for bravery from the general run of infantry. Of 1,500,000 soldiers Italy had under arms last week, about 700,000 were believed...
...quench the thirst of fighting men and machines in her desert countries and rocky islands, Italy's Navy has a unique class of water tankers. Italy's two new battleships of 35.000 tons, the Littorio and Vittorio Veneto (with two more coming up) are, until Britain's King George V class takes the sea. the world's most powerful. Italy's Navy is thus well equipped in most departments, needs only to be tested now in battle...
...combat totalitarianism Brazil has no democratic tradition worth the name. It is split by sectional, racial and cultural differences. About 30% of its population is white, about 5% pure Indian, 12% pure black; the rest are mixed. There is a small upper class, a smaller middle class, a large, illiterate, exploited lower class. This class has no franchise, no influence, no right of assembly, of organization, of free speech. Dictator Vargas' Estado Novo (New State), has talked loudly of bettering their lot, is still talking...
...Harvard, reunioning alumni, by special request of President James Bryant Conant and in the interests of national unity, agreed to give up their annual gibes at Alumnus Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Class Day parade...
...Gulf, Mobile & Northern, and going strong. Four times in the next 20 years Railroader Tigrett enlarged his line, each time taking over another road, until he had 824 miles of right of way from Jackson to Mobile and New Orleans. Last week he stepped out of the diminutive class, stood to get a major trunk line from St. Louis to the Gulf...