Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin's vast Sportpalast rumbled one night last week with a great gathering of the "German Christians," Nazi Wing of the Evangelical Church (TIME. June 12, et seq.). on deck to demand the super-Nazification of the Church. Their presiding officer was brisk, sleek, pomaded young Rev. Joachim Hossenfelder. Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg. Their prime hot-head was one Dr. Reinhold Krause. Meeting a few days after the 450th birthday of their Church's founder, Martin Luther, they proceeded to juggle ecclesiastical dynamite. According to Nazi Pastor Krause, German Protestantism needed a "second Reformation." He submitted three...
...anchorage, navigation, operation, economics. For gumchewers there were exciting pictures of a seadrome at night, in midocean position, with flags flying, floodlights blazing, beacons stabbing the dark sky, gorgeous express planes gliding down to safe landings. Even the windows of the drome's elegant hotel underlying the deck were pricked out with cozy lights...
...Havana Harbor Cuba's two cruisers Cuba and Patria, went into action hiding behind the Ward Liner Morro Castle for protection and popping shells over her smokestacks. Dozens of machine gun bullets splattered the liner's deck, but miraculously no one was hit, not even a porthole smashed...
...carrier, or a huge mid-ocean landing field such as the U. S. Public Works Administration has been asked to finance (at $30,000,000 for a chain of five between the U. S. and Europe),† the Westphalen is too small to allow planes to land on her deck. If the water is smooth it is a simple matter for the Westphalen-or any surface ship-to hoist a flying boat aboard. In rough weather this is dangerous as well as difficult. The Westphalen employs an ingenious system...
...described for NANA would make sober reading for Japanese jingoes: "Imagine a section of a subway, complete with a double set of rails well over 100 yards long, and lacking only the platforms, advertisements and escalators, and you have a fairly accurate picture of the Adventure's mine deck. ''This unique railway is served by about 80 officers and men, and its rolling stock consists of hundreds of the most powerful submarine mines in existence. . . . When the order is given to lay mines, the sinister 'train' is set in motion. Its speed can be regulated...