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...destroyer was swinging hard to port at the time of the hit. Ensign Lyman heard a terrible roar as the warhead bit through the Kearny's armor. The explosion killed seven men stationed in the forward boiler room on the steaming watch. Its force ripped up through the deck, wrecked the starboard wing of the bridge, knocked the forward stack back and broke the siren cord so that its shrill yowl could not be shut off. Four others disappeared, probably blown overboard...
Nilcolayev, a center of shipbuilding, had scarcely an intact factory. A partly completed 35,000-ton battleship had been blown up. A cruiser, one-third armor-plated, lay toppled off its ways, which had been burned under it. Two unfinished submarines had also been destroyed...
Meanwhile the Army is beginning to get 30-ton mediums. In the Armored Force, plans are already afoot to use a bigger proportion of the mediums (armed with 75 mm. cannon) and an improved M-4 model is soon to go into production (biggest improvements: a revolving turret for the 75, lower silhouette, a partly welded, partly cast armor hull). British officers now concede that today's M-3 model is the finest thing on the ground...
Last week, 1,200 Manhattan clubwomen rallied in honor of the Bill of Rights. To them moody Memsahib Dorothy Thompson raised her armor-piercing alto: "Free speech, free assemblage and a free press did not save the German people from the Nazis. They were the very instruments by which the Nazis came to power...
...last eleven months, Empire has expanded into 14 corporations, six plants and a shipyard. It is now delivering every month $1,000,000 worth of guns, gun mounts, recoils and tank armor to the British, has a $37,000,000 munitions backlog, and last month got an $18-20,000,000 contract from the Maritime Commission for a dozen 10,000-ton "Victory" ships. It has 3,000 employes and will soon have 4,000 more. There is not a dollar of U.S. Government or even public money in the whole capital structure...