Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Years later, in his memoirs, Cordell Hull wrote: "I believed then, and do still, that the collapse of the London Economic Conference had two tragic results. First, it greatly retarded the logical economic recovery of all nations. Secondly, it played into the hands of such dictator nations as Germany, Japan and Italy . . . From then on they could proceed hopefully: on the military side, to rearm in comparative safety, on the economic side, to build their self-sufficiency walls in preparation for war. The conference was the first, and really the last opportunity to check these movements toward conflict...
...Fulcrum of Influence. On many another occasion Roosevelt was his own foreign secretary, ignoring Hull. Yet Hull clung tenaciously-not to a job-but to a fulcrum of influence from which he could (and did) greatly modify the New Deal's economic nationalism...
Racing yachtsmen who have made the long, downwind thrash from California to Hawaii are convinced that the trans-Pacific race is the toughest test of men and ships yet devised. Sail, rigging, hull and nerves are strained to the breaking point as crews drive their craft before the northeasterly trade winds over most of the 2,225 miles of open sea between San Pedro and Honolulu...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Meanest Man in the World, starring Wally Cox and Josephine Hull, opens a new series...
...Glasgow's Clydeside shipyards last week, Queen Elizabeth II swung a wooden mallet bearing the carved likeness of a Canadian beaver. The mallet tapped a knife, which cut a cord, letting the traditional bottle of champagne swing against the white hull of a new ship. Then the duly christened Empress of Britain, a 24,000-ton passenger liner built for Canadian Pacific Steamship Ltd., went slowly down the ways into the water...