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Ever since the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and ' Australian airmen had darted back & forth trading inconclusive blows at each other's outposts. It was a waiting game, with the opposing navies screened by islands and ocean wastes. Then this week the Japanese sent three two-man submarines nosing into the harbor of Sydney, third largest city (pop. 1,305,040) of the British Empire...
...Owen Trophy is a championship race for the older eastern colleges and universities, each of which will enter two two-man crews. This year's schedule for the club is a busy one with races nearly every weekend. In addition to these races, the annual meeting of the Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Association will be held under the auspices of the club...
Like one of the fastest airplanes that ever flew,† the two-man Japanese submarines which attacked Pearl Harbor had contrarotating propellers -two tandem screws placed close together, turning in opposite directions. Blades on the second screw are pitched counter to those of the other screw so that both thrust in the same direction. Such devices for U.S. warplanes were announced last week to be "in the developmental stage" by Curtiss-Wright, United Aircraft, other plane builders...
After removing a dead officer from one of the midget submarines destroyed at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy found the other half of its two-man crew still tightly wedged in the ship's bowels. Unable to scoop it out conveniently, the Navy sliced a 15-foot after-section from the core of the sub and, with full Naval honors, laid the makeshift coffin to rest in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard...
...early grave have bulges in the wrong places and straight lines just where they most oughtn't to be. Even the new be-bustled bathing suit doesn't render a beautiful lady as unattractive as one of those proto-masculine outfits which leaves her about as cuddly as a two-man tank. All she can do to relieve her repressions is to drive around in the Buick station wagon purchased by her A.R.P. group to prove itself more socially elite than any neighboring corps...