Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best measure of the campaign's success were the efforts of the Vaterland and its vassals to neutralize it. From the Eiffel Tower hung a V flag. Nazi propaganda photographers snapped V-stenciled trains in Prague, bored workmen V-painting tenders (see cut). To good Nazis, these Vs of course stood for the unfamiliar word Viktoria...
...must therefore wish every success to the valiant Russian armies and people in their struggle and be ready to give them every possible help...
...third target is war production, power plants and industry in general. During the German Blitz on British industries, the British maintained that the enemy had negligible success; when they did manage to hit factories, the British got them working again in a jiffy. But the R.A.F. believes it has done a little better, because its pilots have been trained in night flying and precision bombing, whereas the Germans rode in on a beam and dropped bombs near where the leader set fires...
...bobtail Spanish volunteers who will help Germany fight Russia. This Spanish response to Adolf Hitler's call for a crusade against Communism was not important as a gift of men (the Germans will have to equip the Spanish volunteers). Far more important was Hitler's success in turning Spain from a sullen suppliant to an open opponent...
They surrounded themselves with some of the greatest names of the stage, among them, Lillian Russell, DeWolf Hopper and David Warfield. For every serious success other producers had, Weber & Fields turned out a broad and successful burlesque. They matched Du Barry with Du Hurry, Quo Vadis with Whoa Vass Iss?, Cyrano de Bergerac with Cyranose. Whatever the title, Weber & Fields remained the same. Lew Fields tried to explain, Joe Weber couldn't understand. Joe Weber disgraced himself, Lew Fields hit him over the head...