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...chart of Antarctica and the South Polar regions. The chart, based in part on the surveys of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the most complete ever issued for the area. Famous names packed away in this geographer's time capsule: Franklin D. Roosevelt Sea; Ickes Mountain; Cordell Hull Glacier. Eminent names: Rockefeller Plateau; Sulzberger Bay; Edsel Ford Ranges. Other names: Mobiloil Bay; Hearst Land; Paul Block...
...strung across the water and fixed to clamps fastened along the Oklahoma's bottom. The winches turned, the cables began to pull, and very gradually, inch by inch, the big ship rolled. Week after week the process went on. The clamps were moved up the ship's hull to get a higher pull. Her topsides appeared. She lifted her muck-covered head out of the water, until the cables could be looped around the gun turrets and mast step. They hauled altogether for a total of 69 hours, moving her at the rate of two degrees an hour...
Your editorial "Ham and Cheese" is of interest to those who have studied the Hull treaties. Without delving into either the material benefits or the diplomatic importance of the so-called reciprocal trade agreements program, which possibly have not led to a more peaceful world, would it not be pertinent to examine the possible accomplishments in fields more analogous to post-war commitments...
Important as may be the material benefits of the Hull treaties, their diplomatic importance is far greater at this stage of the game. The vote tomorrow will sound the keynote of future policy. At this crossroads, O.G.P. Unity appears to have nothing constructive to offer...
...State Department announced that it had severed relations with French-owned Martinique, the green, blockaded Caribbean island which lies spang across the Atlantic approach to the Panama Canal. In his umpteenth sharp note, long-suffering Secretary Cordell Hull told the island's Governor, Admiral Georges Robert, that he was, in fact, a tool of Hitler. The U.S. would stand his obstinacy no longer; it recalled its consul general. (But the vice consul and a naval observer were left on the island.) The white-bearded, intransigent Admiral did not reply...