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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earmarked" associate professors are the only ones that fit into the Administration's stated policy of appointing associates only where there are "predictable vacancies" waiting for them at higher rank within five or ten years...
...From Berlin it was announced that the Soviet Union would deliver to Germany, within the next two months, 1,000,000 tons of badly needed fodder. Skeptics, figuring out that this would mean a daily delivery of 16,666 tons, doubted that the Russian railroads could handle such volume, believed it would take at least a ship a day leaving Black Sea or Baltic ports to transport the fodder. >From Dairen, Manchukuo, came a report, later broadcast from Berlin, that the Russians had agreed to transport 1,000,000 tons of Manchukuoan soybeans over the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Germany...
...inch guns at 25,000 yards, without fear of the German's eleven-inch reply. Britain's next best bet would be heavy cruisers of the "London" class, but Deutschland could penetrate a "London's" armor at 15,000 yards, whereas "London" would have to get within 8,000 yards to use her eight-inchers effectively...
...trade (American Scantic Line) for the duration of the war, Moore-McCormack might well get rid of all the old ships it can. So might the rest of the U. S. merchant marine. By 1948, 500 of the Maritime Commission's new ships will be off the ways. Within three years 1,300 of the 1,400 ocean vessels flying the U. S. flag will be 20 years old. Only once in a generation can any nation's merchant marine count on selling its obsolete equipment at fancy prices, thanks...
Though A Sea Island Lady never in any direction exceeds what its audience can take, it rarely eases up short of that. Within those limits it is extraordinarily warm, full, and actual, and by bulk alone gathers an enormous and serene momentum that ends by making the story seem as real and immediate as air. To the proper reader, Emily Fenwick becomes a useful magic mirror for solace, nostalgia, future-gazing, and self-comparison...