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...Marshal Graziani's time-marking expeditionary force in the western desert. Knowing that Graziani had completed an advance camp 15 miles east of Sidi Bārrani, had drilled new water wells and about finished a hard-surface supply road along the coast, British naval units last week hove up and shelled the new outpost, road and wells. Motorized units on land engaged Italian advance units with the usual conflicting report of results. On the eastern Sudan front, British pressure by land and air was increased at Gallabat, Kassala and the roads to Italy's supply base, Gondar...
...competitor hove in sight. American Export Lines, Inc. (steamships) announced it would start transatlantic air service this year. Pan Am vigorously fought the idea. One afternoon last July, Export officials dashed through the halls of their buff-colored downtown Manhattan offices joyfully shouting "We got it!" "It" was an O.K. from the Civil Aeronautics Board to fly the Atlantic (TIME, July 29). But while Export groomed its lone twin-engined Consolidated flying boat for mail and express flights to Europe, Pan Am worked feverishly to keep it on the ground...
...expansion in 1937, $30,000,000 worth last year. As for the ingot monopoly, Alcoa's claim has always been that anyone was at liberty to compete, but few had ever tried. Last week, in the nick of time to strengthen Alcoa's case, an ingot competitor hove into view...
...Italian liner Rex hove to last week off Gibraltar, a tall, icy-eyed man leaned on the rail, watched impassively as British censor officers came alongside. While seamen removed from the Rex's hold 334 bags of U. S. mail addressed to Germany and Poland, Sumner Welles, U. S. Under Secretary of State, left his post at the rail, joined the British officers at tea on the veranda deck. Presumably as a compliment to him, the Rex was cleared in the record time of three hours and 40 minutes. Then the British officers politely said good-by to polite...
...November 1861, when the U. S. Civil War was just getting going. Captain Charles Wilkes of the Union Navy, commanding the screw sloop San Jacinto, fired a shot across the bows of the British Royal Mail packet Trent as she steamed along the Bahama Channel. The Trent hove to and, under the San Jacinto's guns, surrendered to a U. S. boarding party the persons of James Murray Mason and John Slidell, commissioners on their way to represent the Confederacy in Great Britain and France, respectively...