Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distance from Belfast or Newcastle in Northern Ireland, where the R. N. and the R. A. F. may be at home, does not look so much greater out into the northern trade route than the distance from Lough Swilly, where R. N.'s nth Cruiser Squadron and the U. S. Navy's destroyers based in World War I. But it is 200 miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well...
...odds were appalling: 250,000 Italians against perhaps 150,000 Greeks; the fourth biggest navy in the world against one obsolescent cruiser, ten destroyers, 13 torpedo boats, six submarines and a few miscellaneous craft; 500 modern planes and as many more in reserve against perhaps 200 old crates (Junkers, Gloucester Gladiators, Blackburns, even French planes); the tacit support of Germany, with some 70 divisions of 1,125,000 men poised in the Balkans (according to British sources), against overt help from Britain, militarily pinned down at home and in Egypt. Despite this apparently overwhelming disparity, the Greeks chose to fight...
...British convoy, carrying troops and supplies from England and Australia to reinforce the Middle East armies, was attacked under cover of night. The Italians said their motor torpedo boats sank six merchant vessels in the convoy, some of them filled with troops, of whom 3,000 drowned. A British cruiser of the Sydney class, chasing the attackers after dawn, was heavily hit by artillery fire from the Eritrean shore...
...beached. While the Kimberley was polishing off the Nullo with a torpedo, three field guns ashore opened up on her. Splinters from one hit damaged a steam pipe, reduced the speed of the Kimberley. Because her silhouette is not unlike the Sydney's, mistaking the Kimberley for a cruiser might be understandable. But the Italians' gloss-over of their loss of another destroyer was something else. It was further evidence that the Italian Navy, in which armor and striking power are sacrificed for speed, is good only for swift hit-&-run attacks, not for a stand-up fight...
...funds collected in the U. S. probably few will buy as much. A. B. C. C. C. are the Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China. In the course of 75 years, for the price of one U. S. heavy cruiser (about $15,000,000), U. S. Protestants have built 13 colleges* in China. Their influence has been out of all proportion to their cost. More than half of the university alumni listed in Who's Who in China graduated from these 13. Knowing that it needs bright men as well as brave men, the Chinese Government has encouraged...