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First thought went to the practical obstacles : sum total of all South American navies comes to about 70 warcraft, excluding gunboats, and South America has 8,500 Atlantic seacoastmiles, 5,300 Pacific. Must the U. S., with an adequate one-ocean Navy, build one big enough to patrol four seas...
...week locked in combat, each giving the other all they had. Rightists first swept overwhelmingly forward to retake Brunete, then as the afternoon wore on Leftists crept forward, recaptured most of Brunete in a sunset onslaught and by dawn were stubbornly giving ground, battling bayonet to bayonet, with warcraft diving from the skies to machine-gun the struggling troops. This week the Leftists were forced to evacuate the village of Brunete which had been bombed, shelled, hand-grenaded and machine-gunned into smoldering chaos...
...Bilbao caused the routed Basque and Asturian forces to be given a unified command, under General Gamir Uribarri last week. He thus had some 110,000 men wherewith to defend Santander, a larger force than that of advancing Rightist General Jose Fidel Davila, but markedly inferior in munitions and warcraft. Leftist propaganda declared: "Basque prisoners are marched through the streets of Bilbao taunted and in degradation." Rightist propaganda announced: "In Santander 15,000 rioters have seized Government buildings and proclaimed a Communist Libertarian Republic...
...disease; in Washington. On Admiral Dewey's staff during the Spanish-American War, he supervised raising and repairing Spanish vessels captured in the battle of Manila Bay. As Chief Constructor he evolved the all-big-gun ship, the skeleton mast which became a distinctive feature of U. S. warcraft...
When statistics covering the Panama Canal tolls for January were released last week, His Majesty's Government was discovered to have paid $18,500 toll to the Government of the U. S. in order that the Renown, a huge and potent warcraft, might pass through the Canal carrying the Duke and Duchess of York, sailing toward Australia (TIME...