Word: torpedoed
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...naval torpedo is a little submarine, driven by compressed air and steered by a gyroscopic brain. The brain can only keep the torpedo on its course, cannot swerve it to strike a ship whose captain has seen the white plume of the torpedo's compressed air wake and swerved his course to avoid the deadly charge. Last week the Imperial Japanese Navy, tired of wasting torpedoes which miss their mark and cost more than $5,000 each, sent out a quiet request for volunteers to man a new type of "human torpedo...
...Japan's next war, according to the Tokyo correspondent of the London Daily Herald which scored a beat on the story last week, Japanese torpedoes of the new type will each contain a volunteer. He will steer the torpedo intelligently to its mark and magnificently blow up with it "as did the Japanese human bomb at Shanghai...
...seaskiff and put out a chum of ground-up mackerel and mossbunker, bait a huge swordfish hook with a whole mackerel, and sit down to wait. He was eating a sandwich when "the tuna hit like an earthquake and then started out to sea like a torpedo." Fisherman Low braced himself in his leather harness for a fight that, was to last five hours, while his captain quickly hoisted anchor to let the fish tow the skiff around the ocean. For a mile he went out to sea, then turned and ran back, staying mostly on the surface. After...
...what moving-picture publicity can build up in his case." Because Actor Tone lacks the flamboyant physical characteristics which Hollywood most prizes he has been almost as much of a problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Critic Young anticipated. So far he has been a tongue-tied torpedo launch lieutenant in Today null a hero-worshipping secretary in Gabriel Over the White House ; and, currently, an aristocrat with indecision. Nonetheless, in parts which have had none of the richness of his stage roles, he has given three performances each of which possessed a shade more than the mechanical competence which...
...intrepid sportsmen. As early as 1913 he got the first of the government contracts on which he has since thrived. In 1917 came the first of the Martin bombers, first U. S.-designed airplane for Liberty engines. Since the War, Martin has produced hundreds of patrol boats and torpedo planes for the Navy, bombers for the Army, from his former Cleveland factory and his superb new plant near Baltimore. An unsuccessful mail plane was Martin's only non-military venture lately until this year when Pan American Airways submitted specifications for a huge riving boat of long cruising range...