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...cans, bolts and gravel, in manufacturing bombs were demonstrated and instruction was given in sabotage nuisance tactics, such as putting sand and cinders in locomotive grease chambers to create hotboxes, vinegar or sugar in gasoline tanks to stall cars. One particular trick stressed in the school was stretching a thin wire across highways at a height of 4 ft. 3 in. to decapitate enemy motorcyclists. Lest a rider detect the wire, volunteers were told to place a dummy at the side of the road to distract his attention at the crucial instant...
...total and a majority of the Germans are not Nazis, a wealthy Hitler-minded minority controls most of the region's power plants, dominates its economy by a strangle hold on the mate trade. For these Nazis, Misiones is strategically perfect. It curves up in a thin tongue of land between Paraguay and Brazil; its hills and rivers afford a series of natural defenses in case of civil war. Bounded on the north, east and south by heavily German-populated districts of Brazil, on the west by German nuclei in Paraguay, it is also a place from which Nazis...
...sniped at pompous Mexican politicos. Famed is Comic Roberto Soto for his feat of kidding Calles' Labor Boss Luis Morones out of office. An oldster now, Soto's wit is not so sharp as it used to be, and he has been supplanted in favor by a thin, big-eyed, loose-jointed youngster of 28, who was christened Mario Moreno, is known throughout Mexico today as Cantinflas...
...special situations. Because higher wheat prices add to flour company costs (not to hedged inventory values) Pillsbury Flour Co. net for fiscal year ending May 31 dropped 56% to $990,914. 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.'s six-month net fell from $2,325,526 to a thin $117,213 (because of heavy foreign losses, an $800.000 reserve set up against them and a string of unlucky pictures...
...nearly enough cruisers and destroyers (they had counted on French vessels which instead were disarmed in Alexandria's harbor) to match-on paper-the full strength of the Italian Navy (six battleships, with two new ones coming up). But the British counted on the fact that the thin-skinned Italian ships were not built to stand punching from British 15-in. guns...