Word: interims
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...money spent on new construction. For a seriously damaged battleship, cruiser, aircraft carrier or merchant ship is, until it has been repaired, no better than a ship sunk. And every ship restored to service before overburdened British shipyards could do so adds to Britain's strength for the interim as much as the outright gift of such a ship from...
...blockade. From then on his is one of very few American ships at large on the Atlantic, against the greatest naval power the world has ever seen. His business: to make the British all the trouble he can while he can. The end is all but certain death; the interim, the most intelligent possible use of "Providence"-i.e., the weather...
Back home after five years, Haile Selassie found the interim occupants of the palace had left a stone Roman eagle on the lintel over the front door. He had it beheaded...
...Line Avenue to the little cemetery last week, Red-Hunter Martin Dies, Attorney General Gerald C. Mann, a horde of shorthorns were hot after the seat. Texas' House of Representatives petitioned Governor W. Lee ("Pass-The-Biscuits-Pappy") O'Daniel to appoint himself for the 90-day interim before an election must be held. Pappy held his peace, and pondered. Morris Sheppard was buried. The little people of Texas, the Anti-Saloon League of America, the high command of the Army mourned him most. They knew him best...
...interim hope, until U. S. aid began to tell, was the British Navy. Last week a job instead of a man got a promotion. The job: Commander in Chief of the Western Approaches of Britain, in charge of the Atlantic shipping lanes in general and in particular of Britain's side of the Battle of the Atlantic. The man, who was not promoted but was entrusted with one of Britain's hardest posts: Admiral Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble, former Commander in Chief of the China Station...