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Last week, from the mists of the North Atlantic, naval guns roared a message to the U.S. The guns belonged to the ill-fated German battle cruiser Bismarck, and hapless H.M.S. Hood...
...altogether possible that U.S. naval vessels were within hearing of the Hood's last blast. The U.S. Atlantic Fleet keeps a regular (although, in those northern waters, a scattered) patrol on behalf of the British. It was even possible (though unlikely) that some patrolling U.S. ship tipped off the British to the Nazi rovers' whereabouts. Certainly, if the U.S. patrol had spotted the Bismarck and her escorts beforehand, the tip-off would have been quickly given-that is what the U.S. patrol...
...event, once the U.S. Navy had heard of the Hood's destruction, certainly one of the first men to be advised was Admiral Ernest Joseph King, Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet...
...three days last weekend, the brand new 35,000-ton German battleship Bismarck was mistress of the seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain's largest warship, the 42,100-ton Hood; fought off one of Britain's newest and mightiest, the Prince of Wales. The fight lasted only 300 seconds; took place last Saturday morning in Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland...
...Robin Hood in the Jungle. Among those who rebelled was Segundo David Peralta, a bookbinder from Tucuman, who took to the jungle with a band that soon grew to 30 or 40 members. Objects of his wrath were the brokers and big companies, who not only dictated sales prices but sometimes charged as much as 30% interest on loans. Sweeping out of the jungle in organized forays, Mate Cosido* and his well-armed men have staged at least seven big holdups, netting over 90,000 pesos ($21,420). He distributes the loot among the neediest farmers and pickers, thereby assuring...