Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief. Most military men think the U. S. is very lucky in the man who happened to boss its Army A.D. 1940. A stern disciplinarian but no martinet, the Army's Chief of Staff has been a soldier's soldier since the day he left V. M. I. a senior cadet captain and all-Southern tackle. Honor graduate of the old Infantry-Cavalry School in 1907, he showed his administrative stuff as a student in the Staff School, stayed on at Leavenworth as an instructor for three years. General Bell, mightily impressed at the ease with which young...
...volunteer crew, Bristowe entered a twin-motored ship's launch. Starting far offshore, it purred in quietly to the steel harbor net, which it passed over safely. Through the thick darkness Commander Bristowe felt his way undetected to the looming bulk of the Richelieu, and around under her stern. There to damage the giant's propellers and steering gear, his men put overboard a batch of depth charges so powerful that, when they went off, the harbor-heaving concussion knocked dead both of Bristowe's launch motors. As French shouts, searchlights and anti-aircraft fire filled...
...repassed the barrage net, which luckily enmeshed their pursuers. Dawn broke in time for them to see the Richelieu's grand finale. Seaplanes from the Hermes came skimming in and loosed five long-snouted sea torpedoes. Titanic explosions shook the ocean and the mighty Richelieu settled by the stern in shallow water, surrounded by a vast pool of oil. Destroyed was one more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who in 1898 scuttled a blockship in Santiago...
These protestations did not satisfy U. S. Pundit Walter Lippmann, who shook a stern forefinger and warned: "President Vargas made it clear to us that if we permit the Axis to win in Europe, the Axis will not have to conquer what it covets in South America. . . . There will be dictators . . . who will ally themselves with Hitler and Mussolini. . . . Our problem, then, will not be how to defend this hemisphere against Europe. Our problem will be how to defend ourselves in this hemisphere...
...contrast with the machine-gun clamor of most shipyards, Pascagoula's noises are a sibilant hiss. Biggest plug for welding is the fact that one welder can do the job of a four-man riveting team-a big saving in labor (40% of shipyard cost). Ingalls welds complete stern assemblies, bow sections, etc. up to 75 tons on platforms in the yard, swings them into place with big gantry cranes. It reverses old-line shipbuilding techniques by laying decks on shored-up timbers, then attaching framework (ribs, etc.), instead of building from the keel up. It estimates...