Word: thumbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long faced the fact that it is unsafe for a fleet to fight too far from its base, for unless ships can get back to their docks and repair shops, in case of damage, they are at the mercy of enemy submarines and air raiders. The naval rule of thumb for a safe operating radius for a fleet is 2,500 miles from its base. The only fleet operating base of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific is at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Only sketchy facilities for planes and light craft exist at other U. S.-owned islands. At Manila...
...Balkans, Hitler would have a different military problem. No Balkan State has an army which could offer serious opposition to Mussolini or Stalin, much less Hitler. Two Balkan States, Hungary and Rumania, are already largely under Germany's thumb. But if Russia (already on excellent terms with Bulgaria) or some other power should take a hand in the Balkans, Hitler might have pressing reasons for intervening. Moreover, if Hitler is to pick up some of the French, Dutch and British possessions in the Far East his route in that direction leads through Istanbul and Bagdad. That also...
...most Democrats sat back with their feet up, cocked their thumb at the polls (Roosevelt in a landslide), the betting odds (Roosevelt 7-to-5), and waited placidly for Election Day. New York Democrats held their most listless convention in many a year and Chairman James Aloysius Farley never once mentioned President Roosevelt. The New Deal got no cheers...
...Lord Jeffs will dress 54 men for Saturday's tussle with two full teams arriving Friday afternoon to work out in the stadium. Bob Blood, the Tom Thumb Harmon of the East, who weighs only 165 pounds, should stand out for the visitors...
...though it proves a financial success, it will only stay for two weeks, to make way for Bert Lytell and Mady Christians in "Return Engagement." Boston has at last become a producing center. From last night's start, Horace Schmidlapp and Joseph M. Gaites may soon be able to thumb noses at Broadway...