Word: forth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON--A squadron of German planes bombed British warships in the Firth of Forth at Edinburgh today, wounding 35 sailors and slightly damaging the cruiser Southampton before they were beaten off with at least four of the Nazi bombers shot down along the Scottish coast...
...first glance, seem unrelated. They do, however, form an unified program for the purposes of vagabonding. They are joined to one another in the contrapuntal manner which characterizes a Dos Passos novel. Chronology, in the traditional sense of the word, is distorted; seemingly insignificant details are accentuated and blossom forth in their true colors to capture the imagination of the curious person. It is possible for one to find, in these many types of art now on exhibit, that diversity of kind and opposition of approach which, in the final analysis, truly represents actual life...
...Every man knows that ultimately he may lose everything, or, again, may win everything. The chase under water continues for an hour. The aircraft carrier zigzags back and forth. It knows a submarine is near. ... I see destroyers go by before...
...German air torpedo. Two 550-pounders hit a battleship on the prow and amidships. The carrier was "destroyed" (they did not say "sunk"), the battleship "crippled." On another raid next day they flew to the Isle of May at the mouth of the Firth of Forth. There they struck the bow of a British cruiser (Washington Treaty 10,000-ton type) with a 550-lb. bomb. On both occasions, all Nazis got home safely. All this happened, said the Nazis, so help them Wotan...
Alternately the market went to pieces on headlines about 1) peace, and 2) Congressional embargoes remaining in force; went through the roof on headlines about i) long war, and 2) Congressional repeal of the arms embargo. But the net result of all this switching back & forth between war & peace got the market nowhere. One favorite pastime was restless switching from one fancied war baby to another: Wall Street Journal's, Broad Street Gossip Column noted that Sept. 26 one broker got 60% of his commissions from switches, that one customer had switched 15 times in the last two weeks...