Word: classe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same Ministry also announced that it was demobilizing 100,000 men-all members of the class of 1910 (born 1890), all fathers of four or more children, all 43-year-olds with three children, 45-year-olds with two-so that they could go home and be producers instead of sitting at the front as idle consumers...
...send out anything less than a Hood, Repulse or Renown, battle cruisers which could shoot Deutschland to bits with 15-inch guns at 25,000 yards, without fear of the German's eleven-inch reply. Britain's next best bet would be heavy cruisers of the "London" class, but Deutschland could penetrate a "London's" armor at 15,000 yards, whereas "London" would have to get within 8,000 yards to use her eight-inchers effectively...
Released meanwhile in Berlin was a photograph of Pilot Carl Francke, "the German aviator who achieved the remarkable act of destroying an English airplane carrier in the North Sea, and who was decorated by Field Marshal Hermann Goring with the Iron Cross, first and second class, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...
...discovery, made by astronomers at Harvard's observatory in South Africa, of two new, far-off super-galaxies, each of which is about 1,000,000 light-years in diameter (one light-year equals approximately six trillion miles). Another discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow supergiants, which fluctuate regularly in brightness. The Harvardmen noticed that in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, the bigger Cepheids were mostly concentrated toward the centre of the galaxy. This may mean that they were brought there by the operation of galactic...
Cheerful financial news there was, last week, in September's railroad earnings report. Net income for Class 1 roads was estimated to be a swaggering $36,000,000, twice September 1937's $16,110,527, three times August's $10,053,000, six times September...