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...flag waving over them than on their own courage and ability startlingly appeared last week when U. S. seamen of the U. S. freighter Oregon slipped off her in San Pedro, Calif. Her owners said the aviation gasoline she carried was destined for Singapore, but she was bound via the Suez Canal and her gallant crew felt they should first consult Secretary of State Cordell Hull. While their walking delegate was doing so, the Oregon's owners offered the crew a 50% bonus plus full war risk insurance for every man if they would hop to their stations...
Rimmed with British anti-aircraft guns, the mouth of Alexandria's harbor was crammed with British war boats. From England and from India brigades of infantry poured in. Squadron after squadron of British battle planes arrived via Greece to settle down on the well-sandbagged British air base back of Abukir Bay where Lord Nelson demolished a French fleet and "the boy stood on the burning deck...
...introduce their specialties as bit parts-George Arliss as the British Prime Minister and Walter Huston as the U. S. President, circa 1985 A.D. The film is an exciting if misleading cinematic horoscope to which futuristic fashion notes were contributed by Schiaparelli. Good shot: gas-masked workmen chatting via television telephones...
Fleet movements as they occurred were not reported in British papers, by request of the Admiralty. Alien news services were encouraged to transmit via London every fact they could glean about the sudden, sensational and unannounced dispatching of the British Home Fleet, which was scheduled last week to be maneuvering off Scotland, to join the British Mediterranean Fleet. With charm and polish, Admiralty officials said that they "really did not know" the whereabouts of Britain's famed super-warboats, the Hood, the Rodney and the Nelson...
...last year he has flown more than 65,000 miles. Lately in one week he flew to San Francisco for the opening of a regional branch office, on to Los Angeles (with a stop-over at San Simeon to chat with William Randolph Hearst) and back to Washington via Pittsburgh. At the week's end he hopped to Manhattan. About once a fortnight he manages to week-end with his wife and as many of his nine children as he can collect-in the winter at Palm Beach, in the summer at Hyannis Port on Cape...