Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...touch of suppressed amusement the white-suited delegates of 20 American Republics last week solemnly gave to blue-jacketed U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull the honor of being the first to sign the Act they had adopted at Havana. Mr. Hull scrawled his name and hustled out of the chalk-white Capi-tolio, while his confreres leisurely went about the business of winding up the Americas' second conference of foreign ministers. The honor paid to the U. S. Secretary of State, who had drawn last place for precedence at the Conference, was not accorded because the Act of Havana...
Thirty-one years ago this week, on July 25, 1909, a speck low in the air over the English Channel approached the Dover chalk cliffs from the French shore. Larger & larger it grew until watchers on the British side could clearly distinguish a man steering a gimcrack monoplane. He landed safely, and the British rushed to join the world in congratulating Aeronaut Louis Bleriot upon passing one of aviation's epochal milestones...
...Charles ("Filthy") Gardner brought to British listeners radio's first eyewitness blow-by-blow account of a full-dress air battle. Nervous, wiry, a pilot himself, Gardner patrolled the English Coast with a recording van for a solid week before he happened upon an air fight off the chalk cliffs of Dover. For nine frantic minutes, Gardner talked into his recording machine, then whirled off to London to persuade the Ministry of Information to issue a bulletin on the raid an hour earlier than usual. Dramatic enough to galvanize even the most stolid Britisher, the Gardner broadcast wound...
...miles of water between Calais and the chalk cliffs of Dover justly retained its reputation as an unpassable rampart so long as Britain remained mistress of the seas. It would still be so in 1940 had not Britain in the last seven years allowed herself to become blinded to the fact that to have the world's greatest navy is no longer to be secure...
...order to keep down the damned lopsidedness of your incoming mail I'm contributing my bit to the stack of isolationist and pacifist letters that you will surely receive. . . . If this is the only letter you receive to chalk up on the calm side of your War Score Board, I'll have to start thinking about that two-by-four island in the Caribbean again...