Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Barton. Still dissatisfied, they roared for more, more, hotter oratory. A man in the front row jumped up, tore a speech text in half, shouted: "There, that's over! Now tell us!" Puzzled, pleased, the shaggy man returned, and (on the theme: "If we do not prevail this fall, this way of life will pass") lit out with a short impromptu encore that stirred his audience to enthusiasm...
When General de Gaulle and his force (identified by the defenders as the battleships Barham and Resolution, four cruisers, six destroyers, six transports, but probably including three French gunboats taken by the British after the fall of France) arrived at Dakar, they got the surprise of their lives. The commander dispatched two airplanes ashore with an invitation to surrender. The planes did not return. General de Gaulle and some aides-including Captain Bécourt Foch, grandson of the late Marshal-boarded a launch and made for the basin, waving a white flag and a tricolor. They were greeted...
...teachers are quick to resent interference with their political rights, like to play politics, sometimes run for elective offices. This fall many a teacher, like many another citizen, has exercised his time-honored right to take the stump. Last week a University of California legal officer threw a scare into such teachers with an opinion that if they were paid in part from Federal funds, the Hatch Act barred them from politics...
...technique, it has achieved its present production level (about 900 planes a month) without basically altering the hand-tailored methods by which it made 275 planes a month last year. Its expansion has been rapid but lateral-chiefly in floor space and men. Fixed costs per unit do not fall very fast that way. Last week Scripps-Howard Columnist Ernie Pyle described a trip through Buffalo's vast Curtiss-Wright plant, No. 1 U. S. producer of combat planes. Each of the 154,000 rivet holes in a P-40 was drilled by hand. Said he: "It is almost...
...story of the Norwegian Government's retreat to the north, its efforts to establish a front there. Except for the case of Quisling, "a very well-read man with a weakness for German philosophy," Hambro specifically denies that treason played an important part in Norway's fall. Such charges, says he, are real fifth calumny. He says all the Norwegians were brave...