Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked the British to cooperate in a post-war plan removing restrictions on the flow of international trade. This would mean perhaps the end of the Empire preferential tariff program. In turn, the U.S. would have to reconsider its own tariff structure from stem (1922 Fordney-McCumber Act) to stern (1930 Smoot-Hawley...
Although the PT-69's specifications are a military secret, pictures show that she is about 70 ft. long, about 16 ft. in the beam, carries two torpedo tubes and has a stern gangway for depth charges. The three engines pack enough power to run away from destroyers (i.e., 45 knots or more) except in rough weather. Since such boats have little offensive value unless used in large flotillas, the Navy may decide to put little Huckins Yacht Corp. (normal gross: less than $500,000 a year) into the defense business...
...took a list and settled by the stern, but did not sink. The cruiser sent a salvage crew aboard, who eventually succeeded in pumping water out faster than the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, shipped it; and got the engines going...
...many hours later the men of the Ark learned that the big girl, top-heavy with her thick deck armor, had rolled over on her back, lifted herself a bit by the stern, like some great animal making a last stab at survival, then plunged. The men were heartbroken, not over the fact, inconsequential to most of them, that Britain's third carrier loss* left the Royal Navy only nine of these invaluable craft, but simply because their invulnerable, incomparable Ark was gone...
flag at the stern, other flags on the weather screen of the lower bridge on each side...