Word: logging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skimming in and loosed five long-snouted sea torpedoes. Titanic explosions shook the ocean and the mighty Richelieu settled by the stern in shallow water, surrounded by a vast pool of oil. Destroyed was one more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who in 1898 scuttled a blockship in Santiago Bay, Cuba, under the guns of Spain's bottled-up fleet...
...first royal refugees to the New World last week said good-by to their princesses at Halifax. Immediately, butter-cheeked Juliana, Crown Princess of The Netherlands, and her tiny children-Princess Beatrix, aged 2½, and Princess Irene, aged 9 months-were whisked off to a pine-shadowed log chateau in the Laurentians. Juliana was bitter. Said she: "Never speak to me of pity. Pity is for the weak, and our terrible fate has made us stronger than ever before...
Died. Harry Willson Watrous, 82, meticulous painter, noted for highly finished 16th-Century saints, microscopic in detail, onetime (1933) president of the National Academy of Design; in Manhattan. A practical joker, he terrified the Lake George colony in 1904 by a hippogriff-a cedar log fashioned into a sea serpent...
...Knight is a go-getting publisher who doesn't believe in newspaper chains, but seems to be acquiring one. In 1933 he inherited the Akron Beacon-Journal from his father. In 1937 he bought the Miami Herald. Last week John Shively Knight acquired his third going paper, the log-year-old Detroit Free Press, Michigan's biggest morning newspaper (circ. 296,-047). The purchase price, though known to be over $3,000,000, remained secret...
Against this rule the Allies made no headway so long as World War II was merely a threat. The French bought obsolescent Curtiss P-36s, surprised most U. S. airmen after war came by showing that they could put on a first-class show against the more advanced Messerschmitt log. The British bought Lockheed Hudsons, North American trainers, long past the secret stage. The one-year rule was first broken last September when the French were allowed to buy a new Douglas attack-bomber. Everybody knew the reason: the Air Corps was already interested in a new and better Douglas...