Word: threes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What there was of the Second Division last week maneuvered in northern Florida, made a final 83-mile dash back to Fort Benning in three hours and 20 minutes. Rural gapers saw 400 tanks on the march, bounding along like agitated turtles with their three .30-calibre machine guns, a heavier (.50-calibre) machine gun or a cannon jutting from ports and turrets. On the shoulders of their dungareed, helmeted gargoyles was the Army's newest emblem: a black tank tread, superimposed on a tricolored triangle of yellow (for cavalry), scarlet (for field artillery) and blue (for infantry...
...their long record of safety and reliability. The first B-17 cracked up and burned on test, but since the first Flying Fortress was delivered to the Air Corps, B-17s have flown about 8,000,000 miles, made many a long hop, without a single crash, through three and a half years. Up to last week most serious damage any of the big fellows had had was a buckled landing gear. Last week the spell was broken. Flying toward the mist-shrouded San Jacinto Mountains, 20 miles southeast of Riverside, Calif., a B-17 was heard to hiccough, splutter...
...Three thousand miles away in the U. S., where there had been much talk of a new Britain run for little men by liberal men, there was some surprise at this choice: a Lordship, a Tory, an old Etonian, a man once associated with Chamberlain and the Cliveden set and that horrid word, appeasement. There were old-fashioned family tie-ups: the only other Foreign Secretary who subsequently became Ambassador to the U. S., Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was Lord Halifax's third cousin, and the man named to succeed him, Anthony Eden, is also his third cousin.* Lord...
...first time in Britain, all heavy industry and many offices and stores prepared to work full time on Boxing Day (Dec. 26). Last year many British workers got a two-or three-week Christmas holiday amid the now-forgotten "phony war." Meanwhile, life in the big London air-raid shelters, where over 1,000,000 people regularly spend the night, had become so standardized that many shelter Christmas parties were elaborate communal affairs with mass harmony singing, skits and dancing. Christmas trees sold regularly at 40? per foot and every big shelter had one, that under Piccadilly Circus sprouting...
...special court convicted Frau Maria Frey of allowing hers "repeatedly to hug and kiss her and replying to these caresses," sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment. Frau Arna Strauch, convicted more succinctly of adultery, was sentenced to two years and four months. Both were deprived of citizenship for three years...