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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchantmen, for the first full month of World War II, was skimpy compared to the big bags of 1917, when the Kaiser's U-boats were sinking five, six, seven, eight hundred thousand tons of shipping a month. Tactically and technologically, Germany's opponents today know much more about fighting submarines than they...
...Water is an excellent conductor of sound, much better than air. As in air, abound wave in water registers against a diaphragm as a series of mechanical impulses. One early type of hydrophone was like a crude telephone. A rubber diaphragm immersed in the water received the impulses, transmitted them to a carbon-granule chamber, thence through wires to the earphones...
Button-eyed Freddie Bartholomew, whose parents have sued him 16 times in four years for slices of his big Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer salary, sought to enjoin them from suits still pending, complained that they keep him in court so much that he does not have time to act properly...
Britain's Poet Laureate John Masefield, whose job it is to muse on State occasions for a butt of wine or ?75 a year (he takes the cash), officially recognized a state of war. Poet Masefield, who once said: "The office of Poet Laureate is responsible for much of the world's worst literature," published a poem entitled Some Verses to Some Germans. Excerpts...
Busy people drop in at country-clubs, bridge-teas or corner saloons in hope of finding relaxation and entertainment. When busy men and women pick up general magazines they do so for much the same reasons. Editors of these magazines try to sell the public their own private blend of diverting stories, entertaining skits and topically informative articles. And most of them feel that the recipe is bettered by the addition of discreet dashes of something more unconventional, personal, exciting-verse...