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Word: flags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government considered and rejected the idea of convoying U. S. ships in danger zones. It ordered U. S. ships, instead of slinking from U-boats or fighting back: to sail straight courses; at night to advertise themselves by a searchlight playing on the flags at their mastheads; to wear no camouflage but to paint the Stars and Stripes on their decks and hatch covers, to paint their names and flag large on their sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: War Travel | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Theresa, N. Y., Inventor Oscar Eggleston demonstrated a device by which a fish nibbles at a baited hook, sets a red flag waving, a .22 cartridge discharging, an electric bell ringing, a light flashing, a short-wave radio sending signals, brings the fisherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...your club strikes the ball with the force and angle which you intended, hits the green short of the flag and rolls into the cup, it did so in obedience to certain laws of physics which you set into action. Every molecule was doing its duty. This was your motive and intent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...surely going to continue for a long time, are inevitably startled when they consider what would happen to the U. S. as a neutral in another world war like the last. Subsidizing merchant shipping is the only way that the U. S. can keep its flag on the high seas. In a world war U. S. shipping might become a highly profitable business. Keeping heavy industry, particularly steel, busy is a No. 1 national problem. In a war steel, copper, chemicals, oil would be due for a boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: The Neutrals | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Washington. In 1927, and again in 1928, Captain Martin left the U. S. When he returned he had an appointment as vice-consul for San Leandro (a suburb of Oakland). He painted the Spanish coat-of-arms on the side of Mrs. Dargie's automobile, stuck a Spanish flag in the radiator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oakland Case | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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