Word: torpedoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday we beat Holy Cross I saw two guys I'd never heard of, and another that I'd forgotten, torpedo those huge Holy Cross linesmen. They were Dick Guidera, Jerry Kanter, and Nick Rodis. I could not imagine, too, how I had forgotten number 77's name because he was getting endless tackles. Then there was little Hal Moffle who took a handoff from Nick Athans and went 80 some yards for a T. D. None of these men individually was a hero, it dawned upon me: they were a businesslike team...
Translated out of Communist jargon, this meant that the strike leaders were admittedly striving to block the recovery of France, to torpedo the Marshall Plan, and thus to abet the purposes of Moscow...
...year that the Japanese navy laid down, in secret, the hulls of the Yamato and Musashi, 63,700-ton battleships. By 1941 the Japanese navy was "more powerful than the combined Allied Fleets in the Pacific." It was superior to the U.S. fleet, says Morison, in destroyers and torpedo design, and its carrier planes "Zeke" and "Kate" were to prove superior in the early months...
...other retiring veterans, Rodney and Nelson, wore scars from the Mediterranean and Normandy invasions. In 1941 the Rodney had come in close under the Germans' guns to be in at the kill of the "unsinkable" Bismarck. The Nelson caught torpedo hell off Malta, came back for an hour of triumph: on Sept. 29, 1943, the Italians went aboard her to sign their surrender to General Dwight Eisenhower. The "Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without...
Rear-Engined Ballyhoo. On the first day of its New York showing, Preston Tucker's rear-engined, carburetor-less (fuel injection) Tucker '48, once called the Torpedo, drew some 15,000 paying spectators (40? for adults, 25? for children) to Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry. After two weeks on the market, Tucker's $20,000,000 stock issue was about 80% subscribed. Designer Tucker, en route to Italy to negotiate a manufacturing tie-in with Isotta-Fraschini, said production would not get under way until January at the earliest. Nevertheless, fascinated by such features...