Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turnout which had already been staged for such Nazi bigwigs as Field Marshal Hermann Göring and Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. Against the Poles, who are outnumbered by Germans 24-to-1 but who run the public services in Danzig, Adolf Hitler can never lay the complaint that they suppressed Germanity in the Free City. But despite the surface calm, Poles could list last week numerous serious complaints against Germans. It was these which caused so much apprehension in Poland and a first-class European scare...
...advanced college courses, high-school graduates must take stiff competitive examinations (about 20%, pass). On these picked few, Holy Name's faculty (non-Catholic Superintendent John Wilson, seven lay instructors, one Viatorian brother, one Carmelite priest) lavish care not to be found in many U. S. scientific colleges or U. S. aviation schools. Although they get 250 hours' solo, the students are prepared for careers in aeronautical engineering rather than commercial flying...
Just whom he damned was not made clear last week. Naval specialists lay down the specifications for submarines. The prosperous and secretive Electric Boat Co. builds some in its yards at Groton, Conn., consults closely on the construction of others in Navy Yards. The Navy found that operations of the air valve and ballast tanks could be interlocked for safety. But it also found that the machinery would be so bulky as to decrease a submarine's combat value, therefore decided (as usual in submarine designing) that military necessity came first...
Determined to put an end to this traffic, the Japanese last week sent seven warships to the port and after a brief shelling landed sailors and marines. In twelve hours the city was occupied. In the harbor, however, lay the U. S. destroyer Pillsbury and the British destroyer Thanet. On shore were 40 U. S. citizens, mostly missionaries, and 80 Britons. During the occupation of the city Japanese naval authorities peremptorily demanded that British and U. S. warships leave at short notice...
...world grew more & more war-busy, but Auto-Ordnance had no salesmen in Spain, in China, in other places of slaughter. Thompsons, manufactured by Colt Arms under contract from Auto-Ordnance, lay in boxes packed in cosmolene, waiting for uninvited buyers. But the demand for them began to grow. The U. S. mechanized cavalry now has 400 of them. Mechanized units in many another up-&-coming army bought them...