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...hard-muscled youngster paused as he monkeyed up the ladder from the conning tower. "Permission-to-come-on-the-bridge-relieve-the-stern-lookout-sir?" he rattled off in a breath. The officer of the deck muttered: "Granted," returned to his own search of the darkness. Aft, the fresh-eyed lookout took the heavy Navy binoculars from the man on watch, began to scan his sector. Then his voice lifted over the wet mumble of the charging diesel: "Gunfire bearing one seven...
...else in the Far Eastern war zone except in China. They may have an offensive thrust in mind: to clean the Allies out of Australia's outlying islands and launch an invasion of Australia itself. Or they may be building up a defense against Allied designs on the ladder of islands which marks the road to Japan...
Another attitude concerns bankers. Circumstance, politics and the bankers themselves put the calling for a while on the bottom rung of the ladder of public esteem. If they are no longer on the very lowest rung, it is not because the politicians have offered them a helping hand. On the contrary, politicians have taken over many private banking functions, with results in some cases that still await a critical examination. Some bankers have presumably become wiser for their bitter experiences, but they lack the opportunity to prove their wisdom and to attract new, able personnel. The public can well afford...
...Shiggy," as U.S. newsmen dubbed him, clattered rapidly up the diplomatic ladder. He established himself as an authority on Chinese affairs, furthered Japan's encroachment upon China. Later he became Ambassador to Moscow, where he negotiated a settlement of a famous Russo-Japanese border clash at Changkufeng Hill in 1938. As Ambassador to London he made many acquaintances, managed to convey the useful impression that he was opposed to Japan's militarists. In 1941 he became Ambassador to Nanking, where he inaugurated Japan's recent policy of buttering up the puppet government (TIME, April...
...Second day. . . . Make a head [privy] in the tunnel hatch and place seat from waist hatch stool between rungs of ladder-not bad, although a bit on the chilly side. . . . Visibility picks up to three miles, still see nothing but snow...