Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...prophylaxis stations. Army (and Navy) doctors generally prefer controlled segregation, covertly discourage the more extreme efforts of such agencies as the American Social Hygiene Association to abolish prostitution by legal action. Theory (which the Association disputes): when the business scatters, disease increases. Last week the Association proposed that Congress make prostitution within 15 miles of Army and Navy posts a Federal offense...
...only effective reply which the defenders could make was to night-bomb the enemy in return. R. A. F. did blast Düsseldorf, large coal, steel & freight centre, submarine bases in France, air bases everywhere in the conquered countries, the Fiat works and Royal Arsenal in Turin. But the R. A. F. was still outnumbered and the damage done was probably not equal to the damage Britain received...
...Under Secretary of War (Benito was Minister) and builder-upper of the modern Italian Army; again in 1938-39 as Army chief (under the Duke of Aosta) in Ethiopia. General Cavallero's acceptability to the Germans is high. He has had time out from his military career to make a success of running war industries (rubber, planes, steel). Lately he has been chief liaison man with the German General Staff. His promotion and the official fanfare that went with it did not, however, drown out much angry comment by well-beloved old Badoglio's adherents...
...Barbara, a beauteous Middle East virgin of the Third Century, was kept in a tower by her stern, heathen father, one Dioscorus. Be fore leaving on a journey, he ordered a bath house for her, with two windows. In his absence, she got the architect to make it three windows. When her father returned, she confessed the three windows were for the Trinity: she had become a Christian. Dioscorus had her tortured, sentenced to die, himself beheaded her. On his way home from court he was struck by lightning, burned to death. Thereafter people, especially gunners and miners, called...
...Carnarvon Castle, hit 22 times, with seven dead, 24 wounded and one hole so near her water line that ballast had to be shifted to make her list away from it, plowed into Montevideo, just ten days before the anniversary of the sinking of the Graf Spee. On the way in she passed a British battle squadron in hot pursuit of the Nazi...