Word: timed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special court, including three master mariners, sat in Singapore last week to inquire into last fortnight's sinking, by a British defense mine in Singapore harbor, of the British liner Sirdhana, with loss of eleven lives (TIME, Nov. 27). The commander of a British battery guarding the harbor testified that he saw the ship heading straight where he knew lay a mine field. Did he do anything to warn the ship? No, he replied, he had no authority to do that. But he telephoned to his fire commander and reported the situation. Did the fire commander do anything...
...present Germany is probably stepping up her [airplane] production rate faster than Britain, France and the United States combined, so that for the next few months-probably until next spring or early summer-the Reich may well lengthen her lead. . . . After that time the Allies, aided by large purchases from the United States, should gradually overtake the German lead and eventually-perhaps by the fall of 1940 or the spring of 1941-outstrip Germany in quantitative production...
Design, performance, endurance are the true criteria of air superiority as between antagonists of nearly equal factory strength. New types, new maneuvers, new arms as developed by one side or the other will determine balance-of-power in the air from time to time, rather than sheer quantitative production. Meantime, with clearing weather and clearer plans last week, the air forces of both sides went at each other in the greatest numbers yet. As usual, claims made by both sides diverged widely...
...alarms in cities to which the war had only been headlines and absent men. Allied reconnaissance pushed far and frequently into Germany. German communiques made a point of mentioning that Nazi scouts were accompanied by Messerschmitt fighters.* Nevertheless, they admitted that, in one day, seven observers were lost. Same time the Nazis put the score for the whole war at 52 warplanes lost by Great Britain to 20 by Germany and boasted that Messerschmitts had overcome the French Morane-Saulnier fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes of all types had been shot down, and had reason to believe that...
...position necessitated, Germany continued the more aggressive. Last fortnight one of her reconnaissance planes appeared for the first time over Britain's industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week more Nazis penetrated Kent and Essex, passing close to London, some of them apparently to divert attention from mine-laying seaplanes at the mouth of the Thames. Repeated reconnaissance in the North culminated with a concentrated bomber flight which descended upon a detachment of the British Home Fleet somewhere near the Shetland...