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Every 20 Minutes. Even in peacetime, on many occasions traffic would jam. Through three locks (the Weitzel has been too shallow to use since 1919) staggering tonnage totals flowed; in 1929 some 92,000,000 tons, more than through the Panama, Suez and Kiel canals combined. In the short season, nipped to eight months by ice, as many as 16,000 ships slid through the locks, one every 20 minutes...
...without enough time to reflect, weigh, or wait for more information. Kaltenborn himself predicted that Hitler would not come into power. A few hours before the Wehrmacht smashed into Poland, he still thought that negotiation was a good bet. His expressed views on labor have often been tendentious and shallow in perspective...
Coningham had abundantly proved in the Battle of Africa that, to be most successful, air support must be turned loose for the deep penetration as well as the shallow attack ahead of troops. Thus he was air's most persuasive spokesman when he and other flyers brought their plan for amalgamation of all the support commands to air-minded "Ike" Eisenhower...
...average Swede is 5-ft. 7-in. tall, has blue eyes, sometimes grey. He is a predominantly Nordic type, has flat temples, prominent chin, lean jaws, thin mouth with long upper lip, sloping shoulders, shallow chest, slender waist, relatively short trunk, long legs. The hair texture is prevailingly fine, sometimes medium...
Aircraft also had the job of interdicting Axis withdrawals by sea. This was peculiarly an air job, because the Germans were using Siebel motor barges - too shallow in draft to be torpedoed, too well armed to be attacked efficiently by motor torpedo boats' machine guns, too small to be worth risking large naval units for, and fast enough (twelve knots) to cross the Sicilian Channel under cover of dark ness. Aircraft caught some by day, for the Germans were unquestionably trying to get away as much valuable personnel as possible. Late in the week the Axis was estimated...