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...Sunda Strait. "On Feb. 28 [1942] the [British cruiser] Exeter, the [U.S. destroyer] Pope and [British destroyer] Encounter headed for Sunda Strait and were never heard from again. On March 1 the [U.S. cruiser] Houston and [Australian cruiser] Perth and [Dutch destroyer] Evertsen headed in the same direction and except for very meager reports of an engagement in the Sunda Strait, they have not been heard from since...
...deaths of Poet-Critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Essayist Charles Lamb. Inhabitants of London's historic Inner Temple saw Lamb in a somewhat different context. Sometimes the door of his house near the Thames would open, and out would come Essayist Lamb and his sister Mary, carrying a strait jacket, and quietly crying. All Inner Temple Lane knew that meant that Mary was about to go insane again, and that Charles was taking her to the safety of the local asylum. They also knew that Charles had once been confined there himself, when family worries caused a temporary loss...
Cosmopolitan Railway. Arguing that sea power would decline as railroads grew, Gilpin proposed to join the peoples of the Isothermic Zodiac, minimize wars and "transcend the disharmony of world geoggraphy" by means of a globe-girdling "Cosmopolitan Railway." It would run through the three continents, cross the Bering Strait by car ferry...
...west are Spanish Morocco, the Strait of Gibraltar, the sullen, hungry, heartsick land of Spain, where the corpulent Caudillo Franco balances sympathy against expediency, and ponders how he can best save his moth-eaten skin...
...Fred Riebel had tried to wriggle out of the strait jacket, but he was soon laced in tighter than ever by the rough & tumble Brewster union. He had no time to untangle the materials mess Result: Brewster failed in production on the Navy's Corsair fighter, although production of the so-so Brewster dive-bomb er picked up. In August, month of Brewster's latest strike, not a Corsair was delivered...