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Once again Adolf Hitler was busy in Norway. All ports from the North Cape down to Alesund were tightly sealed. Across the Skagerrak, by ship and plane, streamed reinforcements for Nazi garrisons. Strung out along the thawing fjords were almost 200,000 troops, double the number that guarded Norway last...
The size of "Miss Rosie's" business is her own well-guarded secret (guesstimated 1937 peak: $1,000,000), but she readily admits that war has made a big hole in her sales. In some lines (particularly evening clothes, more than a third of her total sales), volume fell...
Beyond the Blue. There are more planes and more men on the islands than there were on Dec. 7. Hawaii is guarded by more artillery than was ever before gathered in one place under the U.S. flag.
The Tide. Last week plump Admiral Helfrich was not at sea, but in the United Nations' well-guarded, teeming headquarters in interior Java. Under him, in the top sea command, was a U.S. naval officer whom Admiral Helfrich and all the Dutch had learned to admire: 55-year-old...
Of Russia he said: "The Russian armies have not been defeated. . . . They are advancing victoriously, driving the foul invaders from that native soil they have guarded so bravely and loved so well."