Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work at naval bases as cooks, bookkeepers, cipherers, but none on ships. Their head is Mrs. Laughton Matthews, daughter of Sir John Laughton, the naval historian, and sister of a lieutenant commander on the Royal yacht. A weatherbeaten lady seadog, she was the first woman administrator sent to base in the last war, spent the peace with the girl scouts. Her women wear navy blue (with blue rating marks instead of the Navy's red), get paid a little less than standard naval wages and grumble a bit because many of them are Navy wives and have to stay...
...other thousands to work making bandages, nightshirts, stuffing mattresses; more took over the recruiting, classification and transporting of blood and blood donors; under Lady Denman, and Mrs. Walter Elliot-the latter a Scottish sheep farmer and wife of a onetime Minister of Agriculture-25,000 girls were sent to agricultural schools for a month and then, when they learned to plow, milk, drive tractors, onto the land. All this was done without costing the Government sixpence (except rent, stationery and the salaries of 50 clerical workers and two men to make tea at London headquarters). "We begged, we borrowed," says...
...Soviet capital a much larger guard of honor was sent to the airdrome to greet Herr von Ribbentrop than when he came to sign the Communazi Pact which emboldened Germany to plunge into World War II (TIME, Aug. 28). There was even a Red Army band (there had been none before), but Germany and Russia were not yet good enough friends for it to burst into either the Horst Wessel song or the Internationale. As the German Foreign Minister alighted, as he shook hands with the Soviet greeting committee and paced stiffly along inspecting his honor guard, the band merely...
...their dispatches, which of course were not sent without scrutiny by German censors, the neutral correspondents also gave the impression that "this is a strange war." They heard little firing, saw few effects of it. They saw only one airplane encounter. They visited evacuated Saarbrücken, reported freight trains still hauling away coal, steel and manufacturing equipment (to the Ruhr) in full view of the French. On the Rhine they stood with German officers in full view of poilus on the other side fishing, sawing wood, washing clothes. They heard stories and saw signs of badinage between the lines...
France hailed the safe arrival from Halifax of the De Grasse, Champlain and Colombie in a convoyed group and French naval experts asserted that of 30 U-boats sent out in Germany's first subsea campaign, at least ten had been destroyed by Allied fire. This rate of loss, said the French, was greater than Germany's capacity to replace submarines...