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...reference to your article entitled "Flight v. Glide" under Animals p. 48 of issue dated Aug. 30, I was surprised to find such a profound discussion devoted to what has been so often and so casually observed in the Fleet by Officers and Men standing long watches at sea. ... Having watched them skimming away from the ship's prow on many occasions I had made conclusions one or two years ago which substantiated the deductions of both the University of Michigan's Ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs, and Connecticut's Trinity College Geologist Edward Leffingwell Troxell...
...drew a straight line down the 122nd meridian, which almost touches Shanghai. To the world's shipping a warning was sent that if it wished to avoid possible air bombardment all foreign ships must stay east of that line from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. A fleet of Chinese bombers was preparing to make a desperate effort to break Japan's blockade of her coast. Still another fleet of twelve Chinese bombers formed themselves into a ''suicide squad" sworn to destroy the recently established Japanese naval base at Pratus Shoals, 200 mi. southeast of Hong...
China's coast is 2,150 miles long, but even if Japan did not have the third largest fleet in the world, an effective blockade of China would still be a far easier move than an effective blockade of Spain. In all that coast there are just six ports with effective rail connection with China's interior north-to-south: Tientsin. Tsingtao, Haichow, Shanghai, Hangchow, Canton. Shanghai is bottled up. Tientsin Japan already controls. Blockading the other ports is none too difficult, was made a thousand times easier last week by President Roosevelt's order forbidding...
...made Britain's base at Malta virtually untenable for her best warships and they withdrew to Egyptian waters for safety, His Majesty's Government have sought some pretext for active co-operation with the French Navy and use of its bases in the Mediterranean by the British fleet. Last week the decisions reached fortnight ago at Nyon for naval co-operation by Britain and France to patrol the Mediterranean and destroy "pirate submarines"* (TIME, Sept. 20), were whipped into final shape at Geneva by the two foreign ministers chiefly concerned, Britain's Anthony Eden and France...
Fortnight ago, wanting to remove some of its stored Del Monte canned goods, California Packing dispatched a fleet of trucks manned by members of the Teamsters Union, which on the West Coast is bossed by A. F. of L.'s beefy Dave Beck, "Tsar of Seattle Labor" and a sworn enemy of Harry Bridges. Promptly hustled to the warehouse was a crew of Bridges' unionists to picket not the warehouse but the Beck teamsters...