Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shooting its taxpayers. . . . Never let a taxpayer die. ... If taxpayers die, or we shoot them in wars, we can never hope to Bal. the Budg." They had lunch in the Haight back yard. On the hillside above it was the mountain cabin where once lived Joaquin Miller, who wrote: "Sail on! sail on! and on!" . . . They talked about Hitler, about the Northwest, about war, about the modern world, and at last Editor Haight said: "There has come an end to the kind of democracy I knew...
...seriously. Perhaps it is because the Empire has made such a bad showing in China, or because Japan is so far away; or simply because the Japanese premier is named Tojo. But undoubtedly the basic reason is a confidence in our invulnerability, a conviction that Japan can never sail all the way across the Pacific and strike at our coast. This is, to a certain extent, perfectly correct, but the trouble is that it applies just as much to our fleet attacking Japan...
...Pearl Harbor this could never be done, since the auxiliary ships would fall easy prey to American guns. The same holds true for an American attack on Japan. It is 3,394 miles from Honolulu to Yokohama, but the cruising radius of our fleet (the distance it can sail without auxiliaries is well under 3,000 miles. In other words, Japan could not fight a fleet action off our coast, nor could we fight one off Japan. The war would thus become one of simple long-distance radiers (submarines and heavy cruisers, the only vessely with ranges great enough...
...lets it go only when he wants to. He is hell on efficiency, cuts loose with a fine blast of profanity when his crew shows signs of landlubberly carelessness. In the wardrooms of the Asiatic Fleet, he is known as tough but rated a good man to sail with when trouble looms. "In normal times," commented one officer recently, "I might like to be under someone a little easier than Admiral Hart, but in times like this in the Far East, I would much prefer to be under...
Already one unit has left for the Near East, and others will sail for Cairo in the first week of December. There is no immediate need for money or equipment, and the current worry of the American Field Service is obtaining an additional thousand men to use what is already available. Training will take place on board the transport...