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...have just read your article on William Francis Gibbs in TIME, Sept. 28. . . . One little bracketed statement in the fourth paragraph is rather amusing and very false. You say, "By contrast, in World War I U.S. yards, building smaller, poorer ships delivered not a single cargo vessel of the wartime program until after the war was ended." That virtually means, as it stands, that the U.S. Shipping Board got no deliveries of cargo vessels...
...India, China?from any point (including several places now unmentionable) where U.S. troops and airmen might have had anything to report overnight. His "log" might also include pertinent communications from the British, Russians or Chinese on any of the Allied land and sea fronts. Or from Army troops and cargo ships in the Atlantic, the North Sea, the Barents Sea, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf. Or from waypoints in the Army's spreading, global web of airlines...
...their customers as it is for the exporters. To maintain its transportation system Brazil in 1940 imported 1.3 million tons of coal, nine million barrels of oil and gasoline. Though approximately 70% of all shipping from the U.S. to South America's east coast is carrying coal as cargo, Brazil gets only a fraction of her needs. Tankers seldom visit her ports. No private automobiles ride the once busy streets of Rio and Sao Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon...
...five were blown to the bottom by submarines which also probably sank a cargo ship and damaged two tankers in continuing thrusts against Japan's far-flung supply lines...
Sunk in addition to the cruiser were two cargo ships, a tanker and a trawler. These successes, accomplished "somewhere in Far Eastern waters" were independent of operations in the Solomon Islands, where American se and air forces racked up a smashing victory against a Jap armada last weekend and where Marines launched a new land offensive on Guadalcanal Island...