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Terms of the compromise, as worked out by War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes: the U.S. will build 319 Victory ships next year. It will also build about 200 "C type" cargo ships of speedy Maritime Commission design. But the bulk of next year's shipbuilding will still be Liberties-1,300 to 1,500 of them...
...other piers, bristled thick along the shores, ships were loading, cargo booms swinging. Foodstuffs in great hills of cases, gasoline in drums, steel landing mats for foreign airfields, rails, boxes of mystery identified only by code words-all in ordered progression, heavy stuff on the bottom, to bring the ships "full and down...
...Jump; Don't Slide. In ships that are battle casualties there may not be time to lower boats, or even to rig cargo nets. But survivors should jump only as a last resort: a man may be knocked out by a high leap, or hit an obstruction. Best emergency exit: a fire hose, because it offers a surer grip than a rope. Hose or rope should be descended slowly. Wait until the feet are in the water before letting go: distance is easy to misjudge under stress. Never go over the lee side: ships drift downwind faster than...
...small tanks and bigger vehicles. Next came LCTs (Landing Craft, Tanks), smallest of the ships which reached Sicily's shores under their own power. LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry) came next, carrying nearly 200 men apiece. And finally came huge LSTs (Landing Ships, Tanks), which can carry a tremendous cargo. They were hauled forward to the beach by "ducks"-two-and-a-half-ton amphibious trucks...
Decision. Truman sum-up on Curtiss-Wright: "Some of its products have been exceptionally good, and its performance as a whole has been creditable." Example: the committee praised the successful cargo-carrying C-46, Curtiss-Wright's outstanding plane contribution to the war. (At week's end, in Trenton, N.J., the U.S. Justice Department sued Wright and eight of its officers for damages, accusing them of selling the Government "unsatisfactory" airplane motor materials...