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Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox last week showed that the Administration has more than one way to skin a cat. On the ultra-public arrival of the crippled British battleship Malaya in New York harbor (TIME, April 14), he delivered merely a smart left-hand rebuke to newspapers which published the fact-without hint of reprisal. But last week, at his instigation, the Civil Aeronautics Board went after the license of the commercial pilot who flew a New York Daily News photographer out to snap the Malaya. Charge: flying too low over city and harbor...
Once out of the hangar, the B-19's wings seemed to grow. She is 212 ft. in wingspan: from tip to tip her span equals the height of a 20-story building. On the runway, Douglas' flying battleship began to show the heft of her weight: 80 tons fully loaded (twice the weight of Pan American's big Boeing Clippers). Her left wheel found a soft spot in the macadam, sank 18 inches. She was rolled out, finally tied down not far from 28th Street, where Santa Monicans eyed her with wonder. Over and through...
...After some time of this their support in the form of a Littorio Class battleship appeared to starboard, steaming at high speed toward us. We turned away and increased speed, and she opened fire at a range of about 30,000 yards before we had completed our turn. We were left in no doubt as to which ship was their target...
...destroyers tried to get across to cover her with smoke, but at the speed we were going (31 knots) had a job to get there, and before they did a torpedo striking force from the Formidable, which we had seen before we sighted the battleship, attacked the enemy and his attention was well and truly distracted. He ceased fire and turned to avoid the torpedoes, and we drew out of range...
...case any of you may wonder why we did not on that occasion go in ourselves, I should perhaps mention that it is no part of a cruiser's job deliberately to seek action with a battleship at night. Incidentally, the reason was demonstrated in our favor a little later when our own battle fleet bumped into two enemy 8-inch gun cruisers and promptly crippled both. This provided another display of fireworks astern. At this time the events of the night after this are not yet wholly clear, but it is clear that both these cruisers were finished...