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Newspaper men* were in Hawaii and the "War" was over. They began poking about, asking questions. Their curiosity was especially intrigued by a number of hideous oil tanks?some big, some small, some filled, some empty, some for battleship fuel, some for aircraft gasoline. All had been built by Edward L. Doheny...
...Japanese naval tanker Hyatoma has these several years carried oil from California to Yokohama. She trailed the U. S. fleet from San Pedro to San Francisco. She put out from San Francisco on the day the fleet sailed, was several times sighted on the flank of the battleship division commanded by Admiral Pratt, entered Honolulu as the battle began, docked at Pier 7 near Admiral Coontz's umpire flagship. On several occasions, her officers paid their respects to the U. S. commanders. She went cheerfully on to the sunrise...
Neither was he alarmed when, early one morning, a "Black" scout plane reported six destroyers, one battleship, four cruisers, anchored off Molokai, the island nearest to Oahu. That was merely the advance contingent of the attacking U. S. Armada, coming to rescue Pearl Harbor from "The Enemy...
When, in 1898, the waters of Havana Harbor were settling uncertainly over what was left of the battleship Maine and thousands of young bankers, brokers, litterateurs and demagogs abandoned their occupations to become chambermaids to mules, Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan. Her bosom did not tremble nor her knees quiver as she thrilled the assemblage with the resonance, flexibility and persuasion of her voice, for she was, even then, no neophyte. She had done her Azucena in Trovatore 20 years earlier in Dresden, her Erda in London, Bayreuth and Berlin. Manhattan...
Next day, as if in response to Mr. Wilbur's fears, came good news. The battleship Tennessee, in a separate test, had plugged in two attacking airplanes' targets. Mr. Wilbur immediately made the good news public...