Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shakespearean Actor Donald Wolfit, whose wares are popular in the English provinces (TIME, March 3), had no luck selling Hamlet, King Lear and As You Like It to Broadway critics, and only fair luck selling The Merchant of Venice. But last week when he fished up Ben Jonson's Volpone (rhymes with macaroni), a play that modern Broadway had never seen as Jonson wrote it,* the crowd- or, at any rate, the critics-made an excited grab...
...Columbus had sailed due west, the "prevailing westerlies" of the North Atlantic might have battered his caravels back to Europe. But by luck, sailor's hunch, or a simple desire to sail in warm weather, he detoured south to the Canary Islands, picked up favorable winds. Since then, transatlantic sailing ships have used the Columbus system, often sweeping miles out of their straight-line courses to take advantage of friendly winds...
...financial front the Generalissimo had no such luck. In a long, tense session, Premier T. V. Soong wrote and Chiang rewrote a series of economic decrees intended to end speculation in foreign exchange. Chinese currency, which had spiraled up to 19,400 to the dollar, was pegged at 12,000. But the deeper trouble would be much more difficult to reach without U.S. help. Chinese foreign exchange balances are barely adequate to cover minimum needs for the next three months. China's textile industry, for example, faces collapse if it cannot get U.S. cotton on credit. If China...
...mammoth multi-pronged attack, with the flanks about 900 miles apart. While the U.S. task force struck Morocco along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans, with all the engines stowed aboard one ship. That one ship...
...almost unbelievable luck during the Casablanca naval battle. More 6-inch and 5-inch shells were thrown by the light cruiser Brooklyn alone than by the entire U.S. fleets against the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago. But at Casablanca U.S. ships suffered only five minor hits, while the French lost more than a dozen ships, sunk, missing or disabled. The Massachusetts almost took a spread of four torpedoes at once, but maneuvered between Nos. 3 & 4 of the spread, with No. 4 only 15 feet to starboard...