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...possibilities of their attacking Siberia grew dimmer as winter crept like a paralysis over the far North. In their present state of harassment they were no great threat to the North American coastline. They had failed to block communications to Asia: cargo planes bypassed them, flew across the Bering Sea; Alaskan air routes were in operation. Last week the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce revealed that supplies in quantity were being flown from the U.S. to Alaska, thence to Russia and China. U.S. bombers may one day take the same route...
...looks today the 1,200-acre Higgins Liberty Shipyard outside New Orleans. Amid a burst of fanfare, it was started six months ago as a gigantic project to build cargo ships on a water-borne assembly line. Two months ago the vast yard teemed with 7,000 workmen, scores of pile drivers, steam shovels, drag lines, floodlights. Over $10,000,000 was spent. Then suddenly came Maritime Commission orders: Close the yard. Official reason: the steel shortage...
...yards delivered 53 cargo ships, a total of 634,234 deadweight tons; in 1941, when the Liberty ship program got under way, 95 cargo ships, 1,088,497 deadweight tons; from January to April 1942, as much as during the whole of 1941; by the end of August, 367 ships, 4,882,415 deadweight tons. (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...
...Year One of the revolution was 1940, when the Maritime Commission asked Designer Gibbs to draw plans for a cargo ship that would be as simple as an iron pot, that could be mass-produced. Gibbs & Cox was supervising the construction of nearly such a ship for the British at two U.S. yards. Gibbs & Cox adapted it for the Commission. This was the Liberty ship and the beginning of the Gibbsian revolution...
...whites and Negroes, these murals record two historical subjects associated with the story of the U.S. Negro: 1) the history of the 1839 mutiny on the slave ship Amistad, the subsequent trial of the Negro mutineers in New Haven, Conn, and the repatriation of the ship's slave cargo to Africa; 2) the history of the development of Talladega College itself, from its founding in an abandoned Civil War prison in 1867 by the American Missionary Association, to its rise as one of the most important Negro schools of the South...