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...amazed by this performance was the Catalina's builder, big, blue-eyed Major Reuben Hollis Fleet, chief executive and chief owner of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Like all oldtimers in Consolidated's tightly knit hierarchy, he has long since ceased to be surprised at any feat a Cat performs. But he has not lost his capacity for pride. It has plenty to feed on in the Cat's nest in a sunlit stretch between crowded Pacific Highway and San Diego (Calif...
...Reuben Fleet's office, overlooking his private patio, a map hangs on the wall. It is labeled, with appropriately concise grandeur: The World. To Fleet's pilots, the world is all cross-country territory, and crossing it is all in the day's work...
...vessel is the huge Surcouf, which has been in Portsmouth, N.H. for repairs for two months. On the surface, the Surcouf displaces 2,880 tons, more than twice as much as the sunk destroyer Reuben James (1,193 tons). Submerged, she displaces 4,304 tons. She can cruise 12,000 miles-more than two complete round trips from Plymouth, Mass, to Plymouth, England. She is so big that she carries a seaplane in a hangar aft of her turret...
...detailing a time limit for U.S.-Japanese discussions. Said the conservative Asahi: "Japan, making a great sacrifice to establish the New East Asia, must take even stronger resolutions to go straight ahead in this and other national policies, to the disregard of American obstructions." Yomiuri made much of the Reuben James sinking, doubted U.S. ability to police both oceans, termed the Atlantic Fleet "a question of old-age warships...
Hitherto press sentiment for intervention has always risen after a speech by President Roosevelt. Not so last week. The President spoke ("The shooting has started") and the destroyer Reuben James was also sunk. Interventionist sentiment in the press just held even at 64%. The 20% drop in interventionist sentiment was accompanied by a rise in isolationist sentiment from...