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Before that summer was over, the U-boats had sunk 100 ships (200,000 tons) by gun, bombs, mine and torpedo. Cruising within sight of the lights of Staten Island, one sub hove to on three different nights and cut transatlantic and Central American telegraph cables. The Germans mined the...
Since then Roebling cables and wire rope-and often Roebling engineering-have gone into almost every important U.S. suspension bridge. Roebling has 6,200 employes, 21 plants. It also makes electric cables, woven wire cloths and screens, special types of wire used in typewriters, machinery, hardware, etc.
Last week, as it was in every U.S. war since 1831, Roebling was busy with defense orders-some 75% of its current work. It was turning out huge harbor defense nets, degaussing cable, wiring for battleships and cantonments, signal wire, anchor cables for captive balloons, instrument parts. At the dinner...
But Welles had little time to look toward such far horizons last week. He was busy. He denounced the Vichy Government for giving up territory unctuously to the Japanese but defending it bloodily against the British. He repudiated a suggestion by provincial-minded Isolationist Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho...
$1-a-Month Men. From its founding in 1914 (after Britain cut Germany's transatlantic cables) until Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, Transocean was a reputable news agency. Then the Nazis put it under control of the Foreign Office and the Propaganda Ministry.