Word: north
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assuming that Royal Oak was patrolling the North Sea (where some critics said a ship of its type had no business to be), its course was made known to the Germans either by espionage or by radio communication between reconnaissance airplanes or submarines. The German submarine then stationed itself along Royal Oak's path, turned off its engines to avoid detection, rested on the bottom, waited till the battleship came by, discharged a shoal of torpedoes. One could not have sunk Royal Oak, protected by "blisters" and by a compartmentized hull. Big German U-boats carry twelve...
...crew 'Heil Hitlered' except me, and sang psalms. . . . Eventually we realized we were sailing north. The captain said we were near Iceland, and later disclosed that he was warned just in time that between Iceland and Britain one British ship was watching every ten miles...
...Fishing has been for big-game anglers. Packed between its covers-in addition to his memoirs and 150 pages of photographs-are: a guide for identification of 58 species of ducks and geese; a treatise on sun spots and their influence on the abundance of waterfowl; maps of the North American fly ways; statistics on the speed of birds; a chapter on U. S. duck clubs, ranging from the commercial clubs (no more private than a night club) to the exclusive groups with $10,000 membership fees...
...ticket in his pocket: convivial, pianoplaying, 33-year-old Winston Weidner Kratz. He ran it on a shoestring for months with outdated Stinson tri-motors. The line was a natural. From a TWA connection at St. Louis it ran to Cincinnati, crossed TWA again at Dayton, and continued north to Toledo and Detroit. But until CAA gave it a certificate of convenience and necessity it was not an airline entity, had no sales value. Loudest to shout against a certificate for Marquette was naturally Jack Frye's TWA which wanted no newcomer in the field it hoped eventually...
...North Americans not only do not share this hero-worship, they probably know less about Bolívar than about any national hero in history. Such ignorance, thinks capable Biographer Rourke (Gómez: Tyrant of the Andes), is a gauge of "a century of misunderstandings and suspicions between the two Americas." A knowledge of Bolívar, he believes, would go far to explain South Americans' history and temperament, particularly their tendency toward dictatorship. For it was that tendency which set Bolívar's main problems, finally wrecked his great dream of a pan-American union...