Word: naval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bargain day this week for adventure-story readers. For the price of one big book, they could get three. Captain Horatio Hornblower is an omnibus of Cecil Scott Forester's three novels (the first two, Beat to Quarters and Ship of the Line already published) of an English naval genius in Napoleonic times. More imaginative than Mutiny on the Bounty, it is that rare book, adventure romance treated realistically, lively entertainment with sound historical background, fast narrative with subtle characterization. Captain Horatio Hornblower stacks up with the most exciting and best written adventure stories in the language...
Britain's Singapore base looked impregnable, but rangy, Bible-brandishing Major General Dobbie, its commander, refused to say it was, thought it "probably the most peaceful spot on earth." Almost as open a secret as the 18-inch naval guns dismounted to form land batteries, blabs Traveler Gardner, is the fact that nearly one-sixth of the funds to build the base came from the British sale of opium to addicts, a Government monopoly...
This disposal of U. S. seapower was cause for thought by Admiral William Daniel Leahy and others of the Navy's high command. As Chief of Naval Operations, William Leahy has a profound feeling for the unity of the Fleet, a conviction that its main strength should ever be concentrated and ready for concerted movement to a threatened point...
Pondering motive as well as strategy, naval diplomats reasoned that the order 1) was not a peace gesture designed to back up the President's peace message last week (see p. 13) by moving the Battle Fleet 3,000 miles farther westward from Europe; 2) probably was a threat to Japan, should the time come for it to fall in with European war plans, and 3) certainly was a tangible reminder to Hitler & Mussolini that the U. S. has a potent force to be moved here or there at the President's command...
Alongside a dock hard by Britain's Royal Naval College in fogbound Dartmouth, the strangest ship in the world is being fitted out this week for a series of voyages that are to take her, within the next few years, to many an out-of-the-way corner of the seas. She is the Royal Research Ship Research, a trim 770-ton brigantine. Chief job of naval and civilian scientists, to be quartered in her midships, will be to chart magnetic variations, compare their readings with those taken by the Carnegie Institution's Carnegie before she blew...