Word: crack-up
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...Except that no delegation went home, the London Naval Parley (TIME, Oct. 22) seemed last week to have reached the crack-up stage. The British Government, after flirting for weeks with all kinds of Japanese proposals, appeared at last to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with U. S. Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis in his flat rejection of Japan's demand that the 5-5-3 naval ratio be scrapped to give Japan equality...
...Navy had spent $174,000 on the Mercury. Lieut. Williams, who had a shore assignment for twelve years, had been ordered to sea at his own request, after the Mercury's failure. "Such a romantic proposal" as a deliberate crack-up at the Schneider races was promptly vetoed. Lieut. Williams had been given opportunity to make his experiment a success...