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...which the Emperor gave him a pair of binoculars. His first cruise was to the U.S. His first gaff was in the Russo-Japanese War, when he joined the cruiser Saiyen as navigating officer and a few days later navigated her, despite the Imperial spyglasses, onto a mine. She sank, and most of the officers and crew with her. Nomura says of his survival: "Ship she go down; me I come up." The Navy made Navigator Nomura a diplomat. He served in Vienna and Berlin for a time, and during World War I was stationed in Washington as Naval Attache...
This week an "unidentified" airplane attacked and sank the 3471-ton, 424-foot U.S. freighter Steel Seafarer, second U.S. merchantman to go to the bottom since War II began. (The Robin Moor was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine...
...They sank with a sullen splash, seconds passed and suddenly the destroyer shook from stem to stern. More depth charges followed and a second convulsion. By that time the Greer was beginning to turn. Minutes later she was back over the spot and more explosions shook the sea. For several hours the Greer quartered that sector of the sea releasing charges at the slightest suspicion of any underwater object...
Founder Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-born flyer-designer, was tossed out by his stockholders in 1940. Cautious, businesslike W. Wallace Kellett, autogyro developer, replaced him, while war orders boomed sales tenfold. But early this year Kellett ran into a pack of production troubles (retooling, shortages, etc.). Deliveries sank to only $2,300,000 v. $6,530,000 in the final half...
Shanghai last week was no longer a city of easygoing riches and casual luxury. The Cathay, the smartest hotel on the Bund, into which Sir Victor Sassoon sank some of his Indian millions, was reduced to rationing its guests to two bath towels a week. Outside the Settlement, the Japanese guarded barbed-wire barricades, strong-armed any passer-by who they felt might be a Chinese "terrorist...