Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, Admiral Standley will be transferred from the command of the cruiser division of the Scouting Force, normally based on the Atlantic Coast but for the past year lingering in the Pacific, to command the Battle Force. Like famed Captain Reece, R. N. of the Bab Ballads, Admiral Standley says he pays more attention to personnel than to technical affairs. ''I am interested in everything that concerns my officers...
...fancy, hut what is neither implausible nor fancy in Hell Below are scenes in the control room of the submarine with men dying slowly of chlorine gas; torpedoes arrowing smoothly toward German mine layers; depth bombs going off near the submarine's bow; a German cruiser exploding and sinking. In a picture so muddled in texture it is not surprising to find two comedians, Sterling Holloway and Jimmy Durante, cast in opposite types of roles. More startling is the fact that the experiment turns out so well. It is hard to say which is more effective-Durante...
...dulled, stood at attention. So did plump Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, and Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother, and Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's predecessor. High above them rose the knifelike prow of a 10,000-ton cruiser, her anchor ports swathed in damp bunting. The vessel did not budge. Under her steel flanks a workman hurt his ankle, was carried off. The band played "Over There." The boat still stood still. Then the band played "Anchors Aweigh." The cruiser began to move. With one arm full...
...admirers try as darkly as possible to solve. First Bogard takes Claude on a bombing trip in his plane, rather hoping that he will be shot. Claude and Ronnie return the courtesy by inviting Bogard to come with them on an expedition to blow up a German cruiser in Kiel. On this escapade, Claude gets shot blind; Diana, almost prepared to let him down at last, has to do the right thing, stay with him. Bogard does the right thing also; he volunteers for a suicide assignment. There is only one Right Thing left to do. Ronnie and Claude...
...accident was picked up by a German-speaking operator of Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan at 1:46 a.m. It simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around the Phœbus. They found nothing but small bits of wreckage. The Coast Guard destroyer Tucker took from...