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...farmer was Hermann Rauschning (The Revolution of Nihilism}. Not a Junker, but "a distant connection of most of the Junker families of East Prussia," Rauschning ran "a medium-sized farm of not quite 250 acres" near Danzig, stepped up its sugar-beet and flax yield by intensive cultivation. Believing that "the breeder is a co-creator and an ennobler of nature," he raised purebred horses and heifers. Believing in "the full quiver," he sired eight children, lost three...
...last week asked OPM to grant a priority for the manufacture of 10,000 steel drums in which to ship 420,000 gallons of oil and gasoline to Russia. Reynolds Metals Co. asked OPM to approve sale of 2,000,000 pounds of aluminum to Russia-enough for 200 medium bombers...
...Medium-tank production got started late, is still far behind wartime requirements but growing fast. The medium-tank producer the public has heard most about is Chrysler Corp. To a $53,200,000 order for 1,000 heavily armed, 28-ton tanks which Chrysler got last August, the War Department last week added another $74,568,000 for some 1,600 more tanks of later design. First to begin actual production of mediums was American Locomotive Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.). Also building mediums is Baldwin Locomotive Works at Eddystone, Pa., which is now turning out three tanks a day, expects...
...Neither is it saying anything about the tanks' armament. But land-battleships of that size could carry perhaps two six-inch guns, a 75-mm. (approximately three-inch) gun, four .50-caliber machine guns. Army men once thought that they had something when they got their first new medium, with less than a third that much fire power...
...18th-Century Switzerland and Holland - now find in the U.S. a place to publish their works in their own languages. Since no new books are published in France of which the Nazis disapprove, the U.S. is the chief soil on which the French language sur vives as a free medium of expression...