Word: ajax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conning tower, Captain Hans Langsdorff talked quickly and confidently with the navigator. This job should be easy. Overwhelming superiority in armament and firepower. The cruiser-identified now as the Ajax, 6,985 tons-would not dare come in close enough to dent the Spee...
...from South Atlantic waters soon evidenced new activity by both French and British navies. Satisfied that they had something to chase, they were out in force scouring the seas, putting in here & there when necessary for fuel and water. Ships reported by name were the British Achilles, Cumberland and Ajax. No fresh attacks by Scheer or Deutschland were reported, suggesting either that their fuel was low or they were lying low. In Mexico, one of a pair of carrier pigeons (a hawk got the other) was reported brought in by an Indian with a German naval commander's code...
...self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied a pasture pastoral like Curry's bully Ajax. Others who sometimes wonder why Grant Wood indulges in such painstakingly stuffy satire as Honorary Degree (see cut) could admire his slick Seedtime and Harvest. Subtler was the humor of whimsical Doris Lee, who in her Winter in the Catskills successfully unrolled a cosmic panorama of mountain as a backdrop...
...staff sped plans to convoy all passenger ships with British men-o'-war. President Roosevelt discussed giving U. S. ships like protection. >First prize of the British naval forces was the German freighter Olinda, bound for Hamburg with $700,000 worth of Argentine wheat and meat. The cruiser Ajax overhauled her 50 miles north of Montevideo, put her crew on a passing tanker, sent her to the bottom...
Arriving in London with five baby giant pandas, first ever seen alive in Europe, bespectacled Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith, onetime U. S. banker in China who turned big-game hunter, posed for pictures with one of them. He plans to sell some in London, take the rest...