Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lend the British a number of U. S. Navy light cruisers of the Omaha class (7,050 tons, ten 6-in. guns, four 3-in. anti-aircraft guns); a number of destroyers (not the Navy's newest, which Navy Secretary Knox calls "young cruisers"); and unlimited numbers of motor torpedo (mosquito) boats both large & small. For these the British would trade at least two spanking-new battleships of the enormous King George V class (35,000 tons, mounting ten 14-in. guns). With the two new U. S. battleships, North Carolina (due in April) and Washington...
...Britain's most closely guarded weapons was the ASDIC (after the Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee), a supersonic wave locater. The Germans apparently entered the war under the impression that the British still had nothing much better than hydrophones, which picked up the sounds of U-boat motors in World War I. Early in the war tactics were therefore to attack, then drop to the bottom and shut off the motor. This was meat for the ASDIC...
...tremendous influx of skilled labor brought sharply to the attention of the Star the need for a bright, compact newspaper in modern tempo. At the same time . . . a modern motor-coach system . . . makes the old, large newspaper impractical to read while riding." Thus last week the Seattle Star gave its reason for becoming the Pacific Northwest's first tabloid. There were other reasons. They were something of a tabloid story in themselves-a story of mismanaged inheritance, hairbreadth financial escapes, family squabbling...
DETROIT--Harry Bennett, personnel director of the Ford Motor Company, today accused the United Automobile Workers, CIO, of attempting to sabotage the National Defense Program "to satisfy their greed for dues and more dues...
...once, when a bomb meant for him killed two of his carriage horses, he remarked that bombings were "only the risks of a king's business." In small things, too, he followed the aristocratic pattern, was a gourmet, a dandy, a lady-killer, with a pretty taste in motor cars-all with impeccable taste...