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Brooke's Barricade. What the correspondents saw was a defense-in-depth system beginning at the beaches with barbed wire and machine-gun nests, some of them made of bathing machines (bath houses on wheels) filled with pebbles. Tank traps, road blocks, concealed artillery filled the defense zone to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: It Begins | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Dr. Francis Friday Griffiths, chief of scientific investigations for the Oregon State Game Commission, last week announced success of a twilight sleep technique for steelheads. The fish are taken from the traps, dunked in a solution of two parts of ether to 100 parts of water. Inert after a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight Sleep | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

It was plain that if Franklin Roosevelt could create such consternation on the eve of the Convention, he would doubtless find other traps to spring during the campaign. It was plain that if Hitler victories made it difficult for Republicans to agree on U. S. foreign policy, future Hitler victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: The Trumpets Blow | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

Not only is the Paris plan vulnerable to internal disorder, it is far from invulnerable to seizure from without. An invading general whose troops break through the ring of old forts and gain access to the boulevards has the same advantages that Haussmann's revolt-breakers were supposed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Last Days | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

1914 & 1940. Last time, Belgium could muster only 120,000 men for her field Army-six divisions of infantry, one of cavalry. Her main defense line was the Gette River protecting Brussels. Last week King Leopold's regulars numbered 170,000, including two cavalry divisions, a small mechanized force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leopold Goes to War | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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