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...White Committee based its case on a simple argument. It wanted destroyers released so that they could give the utmost service for U. S. defense. The bargain was no trade, as suggested by Senator Pittman, no question of strategy, as raised by Major Eliot, no legal labyrinth. Said William Allen White: "If the British Empire, with all the weight of its democratic economic power and its military strength and naval force, should fall, the United States would be alone in a warlike world. . . . If war is not checked and thwarted in Great Britain, war will come inevitably to the United...
North of Crete-the island where the Minotaur in his labyrinth used to devour sacrificial Greek virgins-6-inch naval gunfire bellowed over the blue Mediterranean one morning last week. The 6,830-ton Australian cruiser Sydney had engaged two Italian cruisers of the 5,06g-ton Condottieri class-the Bartolomeo Colleoni and the Giovanni delle Bande Nere.* These ships can make 38 knots to the Sydney'?, 32.5. They have the same fire power (eight 6-inch guns each) but the Italians are lightly armored, designed especially to catch and destroy destroyers. Two British destroyers spotted them first...
...mouse in a labyrinth could not be more confused than many a voteful Wisconsin citizen, thus confronted with a dizzying array of blanks for his X. But out of Wisconsin's confusion the U. S. hoped to make a pattern of political sense...
Every effort has been made to check the most important characteristic of commercial transmitters -- a large radiation of waves into the ether. Instead, all the radiations have been funneled into the real "network" of the new system, the heating pipes that wind under the University through a labyrinth of tunnels...
...self-taught enthusiasts who yell "track" and schuss helter-skelter down a hill, the U. S. now boasts a well-trained army of 1,000,000 or more whose snowplows and Christies are as polished as their skis. Instead of a few isolated trails, there is a nationwide labyrinth of skiing terrain-with villages challenging the Gemutlichkeit of the Austrian Tyrol and Europe's top-notch Skimeisters making Kanonen ("big shots") out of U. S. Fanny Dunkers...