Word: cruisers
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...long-handled implements, mopwise. Nevertheless, there were always corners where the holystone had to be applied by hand. Petty officers sentenced flip seamen to this tedious work as a disciplinary measure. But last week the holystone passed out of U. S. Naval tradition. The new 10,000-ton treaty cruisers are being built as lightly as possible to carry the heaviest possible armament. Even the aluminum beams are whittled away wherever safety permits. The decks, made of expensive teakwood, are only 2 in. thick (compared to the 4-2-in. pine decks of U. S. Liners). Announced Secretary...
Nobody is more punctilious than a punctilious German. For civilians last week formal morning clothes and high hats were absolutely de rigueur at the launching of the new German super-cruiser or "pocket dreadnought" Deutschland. To the christening of this ship, not by a woman but by President Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von HINDENBURG himself, 56,000 persons had been invited and held 56,000 cards of admission...
...drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius out of lightest, strongest materials, was just Cruiser...
Without anyone's having done anything Cruiser A began to slide down the ways-nameless. It was time for HINDENBURG to seize that bottle of wine and hurl it with all his strength, hoping to hit-christen the now fast moving Cruiser...
President von Hindenburg is 83 years old. Such men do not throw bottles with all their strength. By the time Cruiser A was about one-third into the water, President von Hindenburg cried out, "Deutschland be thy name...