Word: hulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change was approved by U. S. Secretary-of State Cordell Hull, who officially announced: "Mere seizure of territory . . . does not extinguish the legal existence of a government. . . . For the present at least Mr. [Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel] Biddle will remain near the government to which he has been accredited...
...prevail over battleships, planes need not sink them. In fact, in a battle line at sea, a sunk ship is less troublesome than a disabled one, which must be escorted home. To disable a battleship, an air bomber need not score direct hits. Bombs landing beside a hull may do more damage, especially to steering mechanism, than direct hits on an armored deck. Major Al Williams, U. S. A., a vociferous champion of the airplane over the battleship, who believes the German Air Force (which he inspected intimately last year) can knock out the British Navy, says: "A pure...
...business, grabbed $7,560,000 of shipbuilding business, began renovating the old Craig yard. On the northwest coast, Todd Shipyard Corp. (for years mainly an east coast repair yard and boiler maker), with $10,635,000 in new shipbuilding business, started rehabilitating the Todd Tacoma plant for hull construction, Todd Seattle Dry Docks, Inc. for completion and outfitting of vessels. On the Gulf Coast, overworked Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., embarrassed by a $7,800,000 Maritime Commission award for four C-2 cargo ships, induced the Commission to rescind a previous award of five smaller -i ships to permit...
...louder in one ear than in the other. He rotates the bar until the sound volume is equal in both ears; then the bar is perpendicular to the direction of the sound source. In antisubmarine practice, it was soon found impracticable to rotate the detector, whether attached to the hull of the patrol ship or towed behind. So the detector was kept stationary and the effect of rotation was obtained by lengthening the path from one receiver to one ear, shortening the other, until the sound volume was equal in both ears. This was called "binaural compensation...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Cordell Hull today notified American shipping to stay out of war zones and warned belligerent powers that unrestricted attacks on this nation's sea-borne commerce will encounter firm opposition...