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...insistence upon limiting U. S. cruisers to 18 at the risk of disrupting the parley was as follows: If the U. S. had 21 cruisers, Japan insisted upon upping its big-cruiser strength proportionately. That prospect frightened the British Dominions, particularly Australia and New Zealand, which live in chronic dread of Japanese aggression. They informed the home government that unless Japanese cruiser strength was held down as a consequence of U. S. limitation at 18, they would build big cruisers on their own authority and thus disrupt any prospect of parity and limitation. Britain, caught in an impasse, sided with...
...this, one of the first of the new $1 books, Racketeer William Tatem Tilden, onetime world's tennis champion, still up among the first and still the dread of the Davis Cup Committee,* has written a novel. Appropriately, it is a tale of tennis, its hero, at least in tennis ability, much like the author...
Came last week dread "Gandhi Day," the 30th day since St. Gandhi was imprisoned, the day appointed by his followers for "overwhelming demonstrations in the cause of Independence...
...naval air station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like an ever-lengthening pendulum. Ingeniously averting the dread "inverted spin" Williams landed, gave to the Navy his valuable findings on the mastery of inverted flight to promote safety...
Last week the Department of Commerce announced a visual beacon will be erected at Bellefonte, Pa., in the middle of dread "Hell's Stretch" (graveyard of many a mail ship), for tests by NAT pilots on the New York-Cleveland...