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Describing the Rightist drive, partially under his command, General Juan Yague told correspondents at captured Peralejos, eight miles from Teruel, ''The operation was the same bolsa or 'pocket' maneuver we used to such good effect throughout our northern campaign and at Brunete last summer...
...Republic four months ago, was gradual. Other Madrileños, in the frantic first days of the capital's defense, saw that the men of the Fifth Regiment were actually being drilled before being sent into the lines, that it seemed to have officers whose commands were obeyed, that its supplies arrived promptly. Volunteers hustled to join the Fifth. From the beginning of the war, the able organizers of the Fifth preached the necessity of a centralized Leftist Army under a "unified command." Despite its size the Fifth Regiment had not sufficient prestige to beat down the opposition...
...into it went also new Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Göring, Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, Naval Chief of Staff Admiral-General Erich Raeder and Major General Wilhelm Keitel who was appointed last week Adolf Hitler's "deputy" as War Minister and Chief of the High Command...
...speed of 160 m.p.h. and a range of 730 mi. Though no passengers are intended to ride in mother plane Maia it is equipped as an Empire flying boat, has seats for 16. Fastened together the two planes, all eight engines (5,200 h.p.) roaring, take off. In command is the pilot of Maia, connected by telephone with the pilot of Mercury. On signal both pilots unlock the elaborate hooking device-Mercury soars off with its half-ton load; Maia returns to its base...
Until last year this caused the cartel no great worry because all three non-members exported only a fraction of their production, leaving the cartel in command of an estimated 90% of the export market. With the current recession in the U. S., however, and the consequent falling off of domestic steel orders, certain U. S. makers have been dumping steel abroad, undercutting cartel prices and taking advantage of the steel hunger of nations preparing for war. For the first eleven months of 1937 U. S. iron & steel exports were 36% above 1929, 192% above 1936. Rolled steel exports amounted...