Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Torpedo Swims...
Curwen and either Frannie Powers, Stowell, or Dave "Torpedo" Van Vort will take care of the 100. Here again Kiphuth has an almost unlimited choice of men to enter. It is likely that Evie McLeman and Dick Kelly will be his choices, although Johnson, Duncan, Gordy Mustin, Ellery Snyder, Willis Sanburn, and others are possibilities...
...handful of passengers-missionaries, German merchants, two or three mysterious White Russians-were lolling in the lounge; a couple of junior officers were playing ping-pong; below decks a horde of Chinese coolies bickered and laughed. On the bridge the lookout casually noticed the approach of a Japanese torpedo boat...
Suddenly a shot rang out from the Japanese. A light shell exploded in Hunan's superstructure. As Hunan's crew and passengers angrily lined the rail, they saw the torpedo boat put over a launch. Several officers scrambled into it, and it set out toward the Hunan. When it came within hailing distance, one of the officers stood up and shouted: "So sorry. We want examine papers. We want fire across bow. We think we fire blank shell. We fire live shell. So sorry...
Today the picture is vastly altered. U.S. ships cannot enter the war zone, so that no longer do our diplomats have to butt their heads against an unyielding British blockade, nor fear torpedo attacks by a sullen Germany. Of course this meant giving up profitable trade, and here lies the danger, for powerful shipping interests may try to circumvent the law, and a doubtfully neutral Administration can help them do it. Our other new neutrality tool is the Johnson Act, which forbids loans to nations that have defaulted in former war loans, meaning England and France. This is a potent...