Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Elihu Root, he had not only had a lucrative law practice but had found time to be a colonel of artillery in World War I. Although he did not love the President's domestic issues, he approved his foreign policy. became a croquet-playing crony of Secretary Hull. But at his age, 72, it was dubious whether he had the stamina and vigor, for the tough, hard-driving job of arming the unarmed U. S. in record time. Unlike him, Frank Knox (66) came up the hard way: grocery clerk, gym teacher, sign painter, reporter to publisher...
...Pacific was to wage a rearguard action. Originator of that action was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, who will not want to scuttle it now that he is recalled to the Cabinet (see p. 11). First Mr. Stimson and then his friend Cordell Hull had to use a strategy which was delicate, complex, in the circumstances, reasonably effective. They played as best they could on the enormous respect in which the Japanese people (but not the Japanese rulers) hold U. S. opinion. They denounced every stage of Japanese aggression in China...
...Secretary Cordell Hull...
...fortnightly passenger service to Down Under, to start late this summer, Pan Am will pull one of its B-314s off the Atlantic run, reinforce its hull for Pacific operation. The American Clipper will make the run in four and a half days (steamship time: 17 days), may well be filled with westbound mail formerly shipped eastward over British Overseas Airways via Karachi and Singapore, to Britain's Australasian colonies. With six new B-314s on order, Pan Am can step up service on the New Zealand run next year when new Clippers are to be delivered...
...Last week Pan Am's Bermuda Clipper (Betsy to her crews) flew north from Seattle with a new name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week Betsy-a four-motored Sikorsky S-42-will go into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections...