Word: starfished
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...abandoned them for fast fighter craft, ordered the bulk of its fighters equipped with Allison 1,090-h.p. liquid-cooled inline engines. Meanwhile Pratt & Whitney and Wright Aeronautical, top-flight U. S. engine builders, stuck to air-cooled radials (which in-line engine men scornfully call "starfish") and increased their power. Result: Pratt & Whitney is in production with a tremendous single package of power: a 2,000-h.p. 18-cylinder air-cooled radial. It has passed the Army's grueling 150-hour test, is now being made to British order and for Army bombers. Meanwhile Wright has gone into...
...other foes. Nastiest is a thing called the drill, which bores through the oyster's shell, devours the oyster. One active drill can liquidate 30 to 200 oysters a season; a swarm of them can wipe out a young crop. But most oystermen save their wrath for the starfish (good for nothing but fertilizer), which glaums on an oyster, wears it out until it opens up, then eats it. Oystermen fight them with lime, catch them in moplike sweeps. Last year starfish wiped out part of Long Island's 1939 oyster crop. This year oystermen asked Congress...
...submarines made their way fortnight ago. Their highly risky mission was to sneak up and pot-shoot German warboats anchored at their bases, perhaps to intercept a squadron sallying out of harbor. One division belonged to the 640-ton Swordfish class. Two of its ships were the Seahorse and Starfish. The other division belonged to the 540-ton Unity class. One of its ships was the Undine...
Last week the German High Command announced that "defensive measures" had destroyed the Starfish and the Undine. The British Admiralty soon capped this by admitting that the Seahorse was also lost...
Since the British said the three ships carried 130 men & officers (about 23 over their normal complement) and the Germans announced taking alive 30 from their two known victims, it appeared that the Seahorse perished with all hands, probably after bumping a mine, that the Starfish and Undine were crippled by depth charges or caught in nets. Like Great Britain, Germany is known to use antisubmarine nets of at least three kinds: 1) of heavy 2½-in. steel bars, to block a vessel's passage; 2) of chains and dangling wires, to foul submarine propellers; 3) mine nets...