Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Britain's Ambassador to Washington, Viscount Halifax, signed the agreement on Oct. 17. Marked "confidential" by the State Department, it was sent to the Senate on Oct. 3 1, with an urgent letter from President Roosevelt. But Congress was busy wrestling with the Neutrality...
Finland last week made official her refusal to heed U.S. demands that she stop fighting Russia (TIME, Nov. 10). President Risto Ryti's Government was exceedingly polite, as befitted a nation writing to an old friend, but as the note was delivered to Secretary of State Cordell Hull the Finnish staff was planning new attacks on a new U.S. friend, Russia...
Reaction to the Hull statement from U.S. isolationists was loud and immediate. Herbert Hoover demanded to know if the U.S. had "lost all sense of human and moral proportions." Said Senator Robert A. Taft: "We will be deeply ashamed in all time to come...
...many a U.S. citizen, committed to the defeat of Hitler, concurred in Cordell Hull's decision, regarded it as one of the cruel, heart-sickening choices that must be made in time of crisis. Their thoughts were expressed by Herbert Elliston, author of 1940's Finland Fights: "My heart and my head are in conflict over Finland. But the times are too crucial to permit divided loyalties. . . . My head supports Mr. Hull's statement...
Across the yard is ranked another group of giants, massive of hull, with long, tapering, twin-ruddered tails. These are Consolidated's big boats-PB2Ys, four-en-gined big brothers of the two-engined PBYs. Like everything else Rube Fleet turns out, they are built to Fleet's most important hallmark: long range. These giants, designed for naval patrol, can travel 5,200 miles-possibly more-on a single load of gas. They can cruise at 170 m.p.h. on 45% of the power of their four Pratt & Whitney 1,200-h.p. engines...