Word: drops
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Charles Dickens were alive today and chanced to drop in at the Plymouth Theatre for an evening's entertainment, he might have occasion to substantiate rather ruefully the age-old advice against indiscreet love-letters. One can easily picture the squirming anguish of a sensitive artist treated to a dramatic portrayal, or betrayal, of his most intimate moments. But time has spared him this embarrassment, and an inquisitive public will find added gratification of its curiosity about the truth of the hidden private lives of its great in "Romantic Mr. Dickens...
...alone, against Germany, Italy, and Japan to protect our interests? The answer is too obvious: the success of the Chinese against the Japanese and the success of England against the Axis. They are fighting our fight. If they fall, we have got to take up the sword where they drop...
...Andrew's main fleet took a stand off Taranto's double harbor (see map). To prick the Italians into an action, he stabbed into the harbors with Fleet Air Arm planes from his carriers Illustrious and Eagle. First through the darkness went some light bombers, to drop flares and incendiaries and light up the scene for the real workmen. These were pilots of Fairey Swordfish torpedo-carrying planes, ancient-looking single-engine contraptions with enough wire between their wings to rig a hen yard. But the Swordfish, like the U. S. Navy's Douglas TBD-1, pack...
...will want to start selling them back. England found this out before the First World War. Moreover, policing the world market which we want to exploit will be costly. We will fight war after war as we try to hold down the wriggling victim and suck the last drop of his blood...
...explanation of the drop in exports was advanced last month by Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen: airplane manufacturers had to concentrate on expanding their capacity for future production, temporarily neglect current output. Manufacturers did in fact have their hands full building, staffing and tooling new plants. But Bill Knudsen by last week had decided that the present aircraft industry could not supply the entire future demand. For help, he had gone to his own automobile industry...