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Known in naval slang as the "Jap Babies" because they were designed and calibred in anticipation of Japan's walkout on the 1936 London Naval Conference, Britain's new battleships are armed with ten 14-in. guns in one two-gun and two four-gun turrets. They shoot 1,560-lb. shells, claim to have greater range and hitting power than earlier British 15-inchers, to be only slightly inferior to foreign 16-inchers. Their speed is over 30 knots, seven more than that of the Nelson and Rodney, completed in 1927 and hitherto Britain's most...
...proponents of the $665,000,000 naval bill afraid of a Jap-German coalition attacking us simultaneously in both oceans? The answer to this is, again in the words of Major Eliot, that "considering further the extreme difficulty of coordinating with efficiency the operations of the forces of a great alliance as against a single determined power . . . we may well rest content with a degree of naval strength which enables us to be superior to any one enemy or possible coalition which may menace us on either side." If the Navy is worried about getting from one ocean...
Nature articles of spirituality: statesman articles of imagination. His ancestry Watertown, Mass 1632. Stuart Thereison's Nature articles Last Rose N. Y. Times Dec. 5, 39: Xmas Night Stars N. Y. Sun Jan 5, 1940: "His Naval plan that nearly prevented the World and Jap Wars" accd'g to Navy Leagues of London and U.S.A. in N. Y. Wld-Telg'm July 10, 39. N. Y. Her-Trib Feb 20, 39 edit'i pp like many of his articles have nat'l radio repetition by the commentators. Not only is he a correct and influential scientist (his interview in Nature...
Have managed to pick up or read (at American clubs usually) all copies up to Oct. 4. Amazing where one finds TIME. . . . Up at the KMA Compound, at Chinwangtao for instance; only there, two of the Jap Conquerors were reading the only issues available. ... On the S.S. Kaiping for instance. She's a stinking little coal-tramp, plies between Chinwangtao and Shanghai, British boat, British and Chinese crew, and never leaves China's waters, but out of 27 old and lop-eared magazines in the dining-reading-card-smoking-lounging room, 13 were American of which six were...
...months hence the Wages-&-Hours law, to rivet a floor (25? per hr.) and a ceiling (44 hr. per week) under and over U. S. Labor, will go into effect. To Washington last week to square off at administering that law went Elmer Frank ("Jap") Andrews, 48, the mild-mannered civil engineer whom Franklin Roosevelt called from his parallel post in New York State. Last week, Mr. Andrews marched into