Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astrological parlance, last week's full moon was squared by Mars (for war) at 10 p. m. Greenwich time, Nov. 26, from the watery sign Pisces (fish) governed by Neptune...
...warplanes lost by Great Britain to 20 by Germany and boasted that Messerschmitts had overcome the French Morane-Saulnier fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes of all types had been shot down, and had reason to believe that British Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes (capable of 335 m. p. h. and firing eight machine guns from their wings' leading edge) were up to anything Germany could trot...
...Senior Laborite M. P. Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, who has given the House of Commons many an unorthodox thought on Palestine, taxes, President Roosevelt and India, bet Laborite M. P. Richard Stokes ?5 ($20) that London would not be bombed during the War's first six months. Owner of big, money-making Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Colonel Wedgwood has nevertheless recently howled about Britain's "ferocious income tax." As retrenchment he plans to move out of his sumptuous home and live in a trailer at Barlas-ton, near his constituency...
Barrington pictured Lord Haw-Haw as "rather like P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster . . . with a receding chin, a questing nose, thin, yellow hair brushed back, a monocle, a vacant eye, a gardenia in his buttonhole." Fancying a creature like this at the Zeesen mike, Britons nowadays consider it a great gag when Lord Haw-Haw says, sententiously: "Britain, your naval prestige is destroyed. We Germans now command the seas. A submarine can dive many times; a capital ship only once...
...supplementary SEC report on insiders' stock trading showed that one of General Motors' unbeatable Fisher Brothers, Lawrence P., sold no less than 11,000 shares of G. M. in September, when the market was higher than it has been since. From G. M. itself also came a note of caution: Yellow Truck, its almost wholly owned subsidiary, has enough business to carry it through June 1940, had been set to pay off its $14-a-share preferred dividend arrearage. Instead, the G. M. management drew in its horns, paid only half...