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With the Allies in Africa and the Nazis in France, Spain and Portugal may have to maneuver smartly to keep from becoming a nut in a nutcracker. One factor may keep Dictator Franco from cooperating with the Nazis, no matter what pressure Hitler applies: the temper of masses of Spaniards who like neither Hitler nor Franco...
Engineer McGay's system is simple: 1) The rim (which should be drop center) is cleaned and smoothed; 2) the valve (preferably oversize) is fitted into the regular valve opening in the rim, secured with a lock nut and rubber washer; 3) holes and cracks are sealed with cold patches or vulcanized; 4) all irregularities are sanded smooth, especially on the beads; 5) the tire is mounted, then blown up rapidly and tapped at the same time to make sure that the beads seat themselves evenly; 6) tire and rim are immersed in water for the usual bubble test...
...Holtz is consistently terrific with plenty of good hoofing, Lapidus jokes galore, and some fine ad libbing between the halves. The audience can retort if it dares enter in competition, but Holtz looks like a tough nut to crack. At times the actors mingle with the audience in a restrained sort of way and one lucky lady in a second story box has the pleasure of waltzing a few measures with Funnyman Willie Howard who, at the time, plays a drunk Scotsman to heckle Holtz from a new angle. Paradoxically, a large part of the show is devoted to classical...
...R.A.F., which lost 31 planes, Düsseldorf was a tougher nut than on previous raids because fighter-plane and other defenses had been stepped up. But for the 540,000 inhabitants of the city it was far, far worse. That could be seen even by a red-thatched, 22-year-old Scottish pilot from far above...
...problem of war finance in a nut shell is to mop up the excess income over and above the income used to buy consumers' goods. For example, in 1941 there was a gross product of 110 billion dollars, out of which 75 billion dollars were spent for consumers goods. The resulting 45 billion dollar excess was taken care of through taxes and savings. For the fiscal year of 1942 the excess has been estimated to be 80 billion dollars...