Word: trickyness
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This ambitious British answer to Germany's war on merchant shipping will require some 200,000 mines, costing at least $1,000 per mine ($200,000,000).* It will dwarf the mine barrage laid in 1918 across the North Sea from the Orkneys to Norway by the U. S...
Last week, after a tour of 50 one-night stands, the Ballet Caravan ratted back into Manhattan and set up its tents at Broadway's dingy St. James Theatre for four nights. This time it showed Manhattan's dance fans two new U. S.-made ballets: 1) Charade...
* Well-known devices: a tricky binding in which a victim's knees and hands were so entwined in wire that his struggles strangled him; insertion of matches under a victim's toenails, to be lit from time to time; laying a victim in a tub of cement until...
On the record, if nothing happened to the U. S. crew during the voyage of City of Flint to Germany, Russian diplomacy looked like a tricky sequence of twists, evasions, contradictions. Nobody needed to point out the main consequence: if anything happened to the 41 U. S. sailors, Russia'...
Foremost U. S. rocketeer is Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, who, backed by Guggenheim funds, runs a rocket-experiment station in the New Mexico desert. In his early experiments taciturn Dr. Goddard used ordinary gunpowder for fuel, has since switched to liquid fuels, such as a mixture of oxygen and gasoline...