Word: tooing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Labor had the look of an errant youngster who suspects that pa was right. A. F. of L. and C. I. O., concluding their respective conventions in Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had fattened on the Wagner Act; neither...
"Insolent." The House roared with cheers for the Prime Minister. The British press soon burst out with a chorus of approval, pointing out that if the door to negotiations had been left slightly ajar, the opening was much too small for Führer Hitler, with his pride and his...
Sept. 22, 1914 was a dark day for the British Navy. Three cruisers, Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy, were patrolling off the Dogger Bank, near Ymuiden. High seas raged in the wake of a storm, forcing the cruisers' protecting screen of destroyers to scuttle for home. The Admiralty figured that...
A submarine resting on the bottom can fire a torpedo in any direction it likes, and the course of torpedoes can be further directed by means of gyroscopes in their tails. The target's course and position can be calculated from, hydrophones. But warships have hydrophones too, and the...
Admiral Mahan died in 1914, too early to realize that World War I would produce another kind of power, air power. Far swifter, far more plastic, perhaps far deadlier than any weapon previously invented by man, its great potentialities nevertheless remained, after 25 years of development and 1,000 hours...