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Black v. Blue, This mimic action was only a local prelude to the Navy's main maneuver. At midnight, Feb. 9, Admiral Clark was to deploy his Scouting Force off the California coast in an attempt to strike through the Navy's first-line defense, the Battle Force...
To Navy men this 1933 maneuver is known as Fleet Problem No. 14. It is the invention of the officer who will umpire the week-long engagement-Admiral Richard Henry ("Reddy") Leigh, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet and highest ranking officer afloat. Last year before his top...
In modern France some garrison commanders punish with two days in "clink" a poilu found playing with a Yo-Yo, consider it a menace to discipline. Modern Yo-Yoing was launched in London by Baron Beaverbrook's Conservative Evening Standard which coached its readers in endless Yo-Yo tricks...
...Navy has always surpassed foreign forces. A reason for U. S. superiority is its development of the single-float type of seaplane gear, as in the Corsair. Foreign seaplanes are usually of the twin-float type which, if strong enough to withstand the shock of catapulting, lacks speed and maneuverability in air. The Corsair shipped to Britain last week lacked the Navy's catapult attachments and had an outmoded machine-gun mount. Reason: Government regulations forbid the export of any model, less than one year old, of fighting equipment built...
What happened was that Mr. Lowell foresaw the cultural crisis in American life and deliberately prepared for it. He was able to persuade or maneuver the undergraduates into an espousal of intellectual cultivation. Hard mental labor is now fashionable; in Harvard College, and better than fashionable; it is at last...