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...usual, the pattern of what had been expected from the Germans failed to occur. Instead of trying to knock out the Royal Air Force before attempting anything else, Germany had another plan: blow out the lifelines. Raiding squadrons of bombers, sometimes 80 and 100 strong, escorted by fighters, had already struck time & again at Devonport, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, Newhaven, Dover, especially hard at the bustling docks of the Thames Estuary. Shipping in the English Channel-embattled Britain's turbulent moat only 22 miles wide at its narrowest (Dover-Calais)-had been incessantly attacked by German aircraft and motor torpedo...
...contract that all players would be kept on the payroll as long as himself. A middle-aged Frank Merriwell, he neither drinks nor smokes, maintains a sporting shrine in his Brentwood home near Hollywood. Among the trophies on display in the shrine are the gloves Dempsey used to knock out Willard, the shoes Paddock wore when he broke the 100-yard dash record, the bat Babe Ruth employed when he knocked out his 60th home run in one season...
...removed from the air, preferably by smashing them on the ground, or by so devastating their fields, fuel bases and shops that they could not rise. To extinguish Poland's large but surprised Air Force took 5,000 planes of the Luftwaffe less than 48 hours. To knock out 300 Dutch and 200 Belgian airplanes took less than 24 hours. The French Air Force (5,500 planes) gradually disintegrated during twelve days of bombing in the Battle of France...
...instead of 54, if needed, to destroy London, Liverpool, Hull, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, etc., simultaneously, at whatever expenditure of her own lives might be necessary to annihilate British lives. Prospects were that the 10,000 or 15.000 attackers Germany was prepared to send and spend might well knock out Britain's 7,000 (at most, all types) defense planes sooner or later, and probably sooner...
...Democratic platform. Irate fans bombarded the National Broadcasting Co. with phone calls, demanded that it take the Convention off the air, give them the fight they wanted to hear. At 10:34, when Senator Wagner finally stopped that talking, the an fight was NBC over -a spokesman technical knock announced out for Armstrong in the sixth round...