Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the quotas of the 1922 Washington Conference and 1930 London Naval Treaty expired at the end of last year without ever having been fulfilled by the U. S., the U. S. Navy consisted of 325 fighting ships, 212 of which, including 158 destroyers, were classified as "over age." Now abuilding or appropriated for in the present push to reach the quotas are 87 vessels, including besides the North Carolina and Washington three aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, 55 destroyers and 17 submarines, the keel for one of which, the Swordfish, was laid last week at the Navy's yard...
...Hollingworth. Many of them had not struck their parents as remarkable. Nor had they been particularly noted by their teachers, who observed only that, from having skipped grades, they were two or three years younger than their classmates. One 8-year-old lad, who had developed from the age of four a gift for drawing maps, had long been in conflict with his teacher over his habit of drawing them in the classroom after he finished his lessons. Said he: "When the teacher said, 'I must kill this map-drawing in you,' I felt...
...Opera Soprano, first wife of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mme Alda launches her book with much of the triumphant, glassy-smiling air of a diva squaring off at a high C. Says her introduction: "For 50 years (everyone from the radio announcer to the Motor License Bureau knows my age)-for 51 years, to be exact†-I have been enjoying tremendously the adventure of being alive. I have had success and failure; and, perhaps, more than my share of fame in an art that I love passionately...
...accordance with this last scheme, Chairman Taylor four years ago hired young Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., a vice president of General Motors, made him vice-chairman of the all important U. S. Steel finance committee, succeeding a man twice his age (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933). Since then it has been generally expected that Ed Stettinius would be Myron Taylor's successor as chairman of the board of directors. Last week, announcing that next April he would step down from the chairmanship, Myron Taylor made good this expectation...
...boys, of about 14 years of age, were caught "In the act" by Officer De Pinto of the Yard squad. Responding to complaints from auto owners who parked in the vicinity, he had had the pair under observation for a week...