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...doings of Walter P. Chrysler, already prodigious, now became fabulous. People said that this torpedo-headed dynamo from Detroit with the smile like Walter Hagen's and the sensitive sophistication in oriental rugs, was building up a facsimile and four-square competitor of mighty General Motors Corp. and that he was going to house it in a skyscraper where it could peer down over New York at the General Motors building on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler Motors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...numerous fruitless battles with the Soviet forces, between Dec. 18, 1918, and Aug. 19, 1919, the British lost twelve other ships: the light cruiser Cassandra, the mine carriers Victoria, Verulam, Gentian and Myrtle, and seven torpedo cutters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Sailors' Prize | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...Navy, Wartime commandant of the U. S. Naval Academy, reaching the Navy's retirement age (64). A Texan, he entered the Navy as an Annapolis plebe in 1881. He fought at Santiago; rounded the world on the fleet cruise ordered by President Roosevelt; helped adapt the airplane, radio, torpedo, depth mine, smoke screen to Navy uses. In 1915 he worked out the modern technique of destroyer units; in 1921 he was an organizer and the first commandant of the U. S. battle fleet. From 1923 to 1927 he was Chief of Naval operations, the Navy's highest post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Died. Frank McDowell Leavitt, 72, inventor, 25 years ago, of the machine that makes tin cans, inventor of the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo used by the U. S. Navy since 1918; of heart disease; at Scarsdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Italian army outnumbers the Jugoslav three to one. The Jugoslav navy of 12 destroyers and torpedo boats and one, pre-War German cruiser would be a puny opponent for the modern, potent Battle Fleet of Italy. Yet last week in a score of Jugoslav cities and towns student hotheads, marched, demonstrated, rioted, skirmished with the police, and shouted: "Down with Mussolini!" "Long live King Alexander [of Jugoslavia]!" "Death to Fascismo!"; and "Down with the Treaty of Nettuno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Down with Mussolini! | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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