Word: torpedoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long-faced, buck-toothed Kameo Sadaki, caretaker of the ruined debris of the Aichi torpedo plant, shook his head, said with Nagoya's curious local pride: "We had almost 25,000 workers here. In five minutes, nothing was left. No factory in Japan was so beautifully bombed." The Aichi plant, which was 95% destroyed, is being sold for scrap metal to anyone that will carry it away. Youngish Toshio Takahashi, the plant manager, says softly: "It still seems like a dream to see all this. I suppose we should tear it down quickly, but that would cost too much...
Rear Admiral N. M. Kulakov celebrated Navy Day by claiming that Russians had invented the torpedo, the ironclad, the submarine, the minelayer and the minesweeper...
...battleship Rodney, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, cruisers and destroyers, was ready to shoot it out with her. The Bismarck was alone; Prinz Eugen had escaped, was later spotted by aircraft at Brest. Before Sir John got within range, the Bismarck had been crippled by a carrier-plane torpedo attack. It was 8:47 on the morning of the 27th before the Rodney and King George V opened up. Lamed and surrounded, the Bismarck was hit again & again. Destroyers and cruisers banged away; torpedoes hit her; her guns went silent. By 10 o'clock she was aflame and crewmen...
...freshmen, nothing short of a torpedo can stop them from winning. Coach Harvey Love has developed the best yearling boat in many a season. In fact, they are good enough to have defeated their own varsity in time trials, something unprecedented in rowing circles...
Profit-Takers. The indictment made no attempt to set forth the complex schemes by which Tucker had raised-and spent -$28 million collected from the sale of stock and dealer franchises for his Torpedo 8. The grand jury merely totted up Tucker's statements and labeled each one "false." Said the jury: Tucker & Associates, "seeking to capitalize on the unusual consumer demand" for autos, falsely "represented [Tucker] as an automotive inventor and designing genius" and obtained money "for [their own] personal benefit and profit" by "payments of excessive salaries and expense accounts to themselves, by the creation of fictitious...