Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 1,200 men aboard Royal Oak, only 414 had been saved at latest reports, indicating that she had, when struck, gone down like a dumped ballast of pig iron. Question: How did it happen? Although one old battleship, the Britannia, was downed by submarines two days before the Armistice in 1918, not a single capital ship of the Grand Fleet was torpedoed by a submarine during the whole of the War, and anti-submarine tactics and technology are supposed to have vastly improved since then. In the absence of concrete information neutral naval experts were free to speculate. Best...
Masters of ersatz, Germans devised detours, pretenses, camouflages. They built underground factories; used commercial planes to develop military design; laid out airfields planted in alfalfa, made hangars like barns, dressed greaseballs like hayseeds. Thousands of young Germans joined Deutsche Lujtsport Verband (German Air Sports Society) and proceeded to fly their sports planes up & down Germany in tight military formations. Meanwhile civilians took to gliding and soaring...
...equipped with two liquid-cooled, streamlined, inverted-V Daimler-Benz engines, can lug one ton of bombs 1,500 miles at nearly 300 miles an hour; and the Heinkel, produced at Germany's model factory at Oranienburg (where duplicate machinery is set up underground, where workers live like prep-school boys), can carry the same load almost as fast and a little farther-1,600 miles...
...bought from the U. S. planes which this country had already improved upon. One of France's top fighters is the Curtiss P-36, of which she bought 200. Its 275-300 m. p. h. are not enough. Its air-cooled engine, offering considerable wind resistance ("like running for a trolley car with your overcoat open," says Al Williams), does not streamline as neatly as liquid-cooled power-plants. However, the French have repeatedly expressed themselves satisfied with the P-36, and have claimed that it even outfights the Messerschmitt, being more maneuverable...
Witless, but spreading like wildfire, is a Palladium war tune, Run Rabbit Run.* Celebrities in the audience, such as Beatrice Lillie or Ivor Novello, have been yanked up on the stage to bray it out. Novello, composer of World War I's Keep the Home Fires Burning, has written a new marching song, We'll Remember the Meadows, which will be introduced at the opening of his new show next week...