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...flagship Majestic is still the biggest ship afloat but soon she will be surpassed by France's Normandie. Balm for British pride lies on the ways of John Brown & Son's shipyard in Clydesbank, Scotland - Cunard's unfinished No. 534 (probable name: Princess Elizabeth), the skeleton of a 73,000-ton monster which will be "world's biggest & fastest" liner. Funds ran out and work was dropped on No. 534 two years ago. Last week, with the merger a fact, Neville Chamberlain loosened the strings of his Exchequer. For completion of No. 534 he promised...
...President, last week Mr. Roosevelt bundled up warmly and set off in his limousine to make a succession of sick calls. Through sleet and along roads as slick as glass, he first drove to the Naval Hospital. There he found Secretary Ickes propped up in bed attended by a skeleton staff from the Interior Department, trying his best to disregard a fractured rib sustained when he fell on an icy pavement. Oil Administrator, Public Works Administrator, a holder of five extra-cabinet jobs, Mr. Ickes knows that he and Secretary Wallace are the two men on whom the President depends...
...remaining quite a pleasant pair. One girl has lived in incest, and ends with suicide. A man loses wife and place because of gross and public cowardice. It is a tribute to the skill of the author that all these themes, so bloody and thundery when related in skeleton, impress the reader of the book as the most natural and commonplace. This fact is perhaps the most convincing proof that Maugham has succeeded in portraying reactions and motives in a way to jibe with the experience...
...authorized the maneuver. Beginning early next spring the Battle Force, which has been in the Pacific, its normal base, since 1930, and the Scouting Force which went there during the Sino-Japanese crisis, will return to eastern ports until autumn, then go back to the Pacific. Meanwhile only a skeleton fleet of 15 destroyers, four battleships, half a dozen cruisers and submarines will guard the Pacific. The cruise will bring many of the 50,000 enlisted men and 4,500 officers home for the first time in three years, will cost the Navy Department...
...usual course is active military service. ROTC men, on the other hand, are commissioned in the reserve army. Military service in the time of peace rests entirely with the graduate, but if he wishes he may work and advance in the army. The ROTC is merely a skeleton of an emergency group, while the regular army is a permanent and active organization...