Word: collier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships they were building. One of his firm beliefs was the necessity of multiple compartmentation and automatic sliding doors in bulkheads to make ships as unsinkable as was humanly possible. He was deeply impressed by the tragedy of the Empress of Ireland, which had collided with a Norwegian collier in 1914 and with water pouring into her hold had capsized. He thought such accidents need...
Longest ashore was the Montreal Standard's Wallace Reyburn, who had six and a half hours of it, finally had to swim off to a torpedo boat. Collier's Quentin Reynolds saw the battle from a destroyer, flagship of the raiding fleet, Associated Press's Drew Middleton from a 100-foot launch. Other U.S. correspondents: National Broadcasting's John McVane, the New York Sun's Gault MacGowan. MacGowan, a veteran roving reporter and soldier of fortune, had the unluckiest tale, got it through to the Sun, a day late, only after a long struggle with...
...alone? I don't think so; I think a big reason is that people, some people, find comfort in turning to God when they feel they aren't getting lay leadership. And just the other day Walter Lippmann, discussing that professor who wrote the piece in Collier's about cutting and assembling a new democratic world, said "he [the professor] is the product of an academic system in which the study of moral wisdom has been abandoned." I, as a fairly normal American, agree wholeheartedly...
...debate opened last month when a geography professor named George T. Renner, of Columbia University's Teachers College, published in Collier's a map of a post-war world drawn to "democratic specifications" (TIME, June 15). A disciple of the small but respectable school of American geopoliticos which includes Yale's Professor Nicholas John Spykman (America's Strategy in World Politics- TIME, April 20), Professor Renner believes that scholars, not "amateurs," are best able to write the peace...
George Renner's maps, published in Collier's, have two main geopolitical principles: 1) states should be large, 2) each should be given a fair share of this world's shores and jewels...