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Chapter Six. Erwin Rommel was wielding the most massive ground forces the Axis had ever had in Africa, in five campaigns over the same ground. The British also had never been stronger. Their arsenal included new U.S. medium tanks as well as U.S. planes, and their manpower included U.S. mechanics-the most essential of personnel in tank warfare, where 50% to 90% of the machines in action are often disabled in a single battle...
...fine-arts department was "not renewed." Now he is at Tulane University. Professor Feild contends that comic strips and cavemen's scrawls were forerunners of the animated movie that Walt Disney has made into "the great art form that it is today." His book tells the way the medium works, rather than why it is great...
...mission emphasized what the British had just been telling newsmen: before long a raid by 300 R.A.F. planes is going to be a medium-sized show; soon the R.A.F. is going to send the bombers over 1,000 at a time...
Last week the British gave a good demonstration of what a "medium-sized show" could be. One night when there was a hint of better ceilings after several days of bad weather, the R.A.F. thundered out across Germany with close to 300 planes. The target was industrial Mannheim (pop. 275,000), railroad-veined center on the upper Rhine. The R.A.F. was after the Daimler-Benz airplane-engine (for Messerschmitts, Dorniers, etc.) works, the Lanz armament plant, the vast Badische chemical works nearby...
Luminosity, precision, an illusion of floating through flawless air are effects she strives for and sometimes gets in the new medium. Her Naval Academy murals are excellent. A portrait of Mrs. Mullen's son on a tricycle, on view in the window of Chicago's Findlay Galleries, once slowed up traffic considerably on Michigan Avenue. There have been other unreckoned results...