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...break through with tanks, he suggested using three successive waves, behind which would pour infantry attackers to maintain their breach. This system calls for tight concentration of tanks into vast breaching units-e.g., the four Panzer Armies which have made the big breaks in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Mr. Eimcmnsberger Wins | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...some help. The Los Angeles posse, which includes Cinemactor Buck Jones, Oilman Earl Gilmore and 20 assorted millionaires, have twice within the past two years gone into remote mountain regions to recover the bodies of air-crash victims. But, for the most part, sheriff's posses are pour le sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horsy Posses | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...this week, if he can draw up his specifications in time, Franklin Roosevelt will send a message to the Capitol asking Congress to make one of the wildest, brightest New Deal dreams come true. He will ask for a law to pour all Social Security payments in one big Federal pool, also to extend its benefits to some 27,000,000 household servants, farm laborers and migratory workers who are not now covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Price Security? | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...reach more people more directly than at any time since the defense program got under way. Orders . for arms filter slowly into the spending stream, but purchases for farm products, partly because the Department of Agriculture's Surplus Marketing Administration has long been set up and functioning, can pour out like a flash flood. Half a billion will go for meat, fish, fats, lard - mostly pork. Some $250,000,000 will go for dairy products, another $250,000,000 for poultry and eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Not Bundles But Food | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...when such affairs ended, and the candidate, even if passed, was in a slough of despond over his showing, Mr. Kittredge, whose own vast strength was accompanied by mersy could pour out grace abounding upon the chief of sinners...

Author: By Douglas Bush and Professor OF English, S | Title: BUSH RECALLS AWE AND GRATITUDE AROUSED BY SCHOLAR'S MAJESTY | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

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