Word: southing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after the sinking of the 5,051-ton British freighter Clement in the South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge growlers on the foggy way to Greenland, big men on the cold Cape haul-all were nervous on the watch and reminiscent at mess because of a capricious, romantic, dangerous ghost that was out kissing British ships again: the German raider...
Whatever the raider, the incident raised one challenging question. Where was she based? The attack occurred at least 6,000 miles from German waters, and even the Admiral Scheer could cruise only 10,000. Fuel and supplies must have come from either a South American or West Indian port...
...Last week the world's largest submarine, France's Surcouf, claimed capture of a German merchantship 1,000 miles out in the Atlantic. The raider also may have had a rendezvous with the 13.615-ton passenger vessel Cap Norte, one of the fastest German ships in the South Atlantic service, unreported since she sailed from Pernambuco fortnight ago heavily loaded with fuel and accompanied by two German freighters carrying fuel and foodstuffs...
...South Bend, Ind., mighty Notre Dame, No. 11contender for the mythical U. S. football championship this year, had a hard time shaking off a scrappy Georgia Tech team led by a tantalizing little 140-pounder named Johnny Bosch, finally subdued them...
Crack British flyer Amy Johnson, who angrily enlisted as a lorry driver when the Civil Air Guard turned her down as an aviatrix, was fined 10s. in a Cardiff, South Wales, court for driving without a license, ?3 for not stopping when ordered, ?2 for careless driving, 178. 6d. for not observing blackout headlight restrictions. Total fine: $25.50. The arresting constable complained that Amy used her nails on him, but she held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that...