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...outfit that was not surprised by the first shattering havoc wrought by German Stukas was the U. S. Navy. For Navy fliers had first conceived and developed the technique of launching a bomb from an airplane diving as close to the vertical as possible. But because U. S. citizens and their Congress believed in penny-pinching Army & Navy upkeep in peacetime, most of the Navy's dive-bombers today are obsolescent biplanes, descendants of the first Curtiss Helldiver...
Together these faces, 60 ft. high, were the largest piece of sculpture ever wrought in the Christian Era. For 14 years a crew of workmen, with dynamite, steam shovels and compressed-air drills, had patiently chipped their features into the mountain's rocky face, removing 400,000 tons of granite in the process. Against them, even the driving weather of the Northwestern winter battled slowly. It would take 108 million years before wind, rain, freezes and thaws could wear them back into the stone mountain from which they had emerged...
...great British social upset wrought by war was evi dent in the widespread belief that the next Prime Minister would be Trade Union leader and Minister of Labor...
Dreiser's tract is largely an attack on this felonious isle, this seat of tyrants, this England. He is also so fearfully wrought up over the present state of the U. S. that America is Worth Saving reads like the definitive burlesque of Upton Sinclair. Like Trumbo, Dreiser is just a good guy trying to revive the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Last fall, during the Presidential campaign, he announced his support of Earl Browder and the Communist Party platform...
...Empire and has deprived Italy of the sympathy and intimacy of the United States of America. . . . One man has arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of the ferocious pagan barbarians. . . . There lies the tragedy of Italian history and there stands the criminal who has wrought the deed of folly and of shame." How many Italians hearkened to these words no one knows,* but it was necessary for King Vittorio Emanuele to make a plea for unity to his people and for Crown Princess Marie Jose publicly to join the Fascist Party...