Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Policeman Hoover whose men eliminated the Baby Face Nelsons, John Dillingers, Pretty Boy Floyds, broke the kidnapping business of half a dozen years ago and blasted Public Enemies No. 1 as fast as they arose, returned to his spacious office at FBI headquarters. There a huge model of a cop's nightstick leans against the wall, a photograph of his mother, who died two years ago, rests on the desk and on a radio stands a framed sentiment, "The Penalty of Leadership," which says: "In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live...
...much which economy could take it longest, but could the Allies organize effectively for total war? In his speech last week, Mr. Lloyd George loosely said that Great Britain had 6,000,000 less tons of ships than in War I and that Germany was sinking them twice as fast as in the first six months of War I. His tonnage figures were away off, for the total tonnages available to the Allies then and now look like this...
Although the eastern anchor of the Mannerheim Line still held fast to the Taipale River, the Finns' retreat in the west had brought their western defense line parallel to their whole line of communications. This meant that if the line broke anywhere the rest of the front-line troops would be cut off from their supplies. And so last week the Finns began retreating in the middle of the isthmus, swinging their army back like a door, with Viipuri as the hinge. To the north and west of Viipuri civilians were cleared out of towns and villages, while...
Worst of all for the Finns, the Russians were destroying men and material as fast as the Finns could get them from abroad. Against the 10,000 volunteers who have joined the Finns, at least 17,000 Finns have been killed in the battle of Viipuri. The Russians claim to have shot down 191 airplanes since Feb. 11th. This was 41 more than the entire Finnish Air Force at the beginning of the war. And that drive has netted the Russians a great store of small arms. As if to counteract these losses the Finns last week routed the 34th...
However this time the Feslermen will know exactly what they are facing and that fact will be an aid in planning both the offense and the defense. It wasn't until the second half last Saturday that they discovered the remedy for fast breaking attack in a modified zone defense which proved quite effective, and tonight they will not have to experiment for a whole period...