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...withheld by request. fireman to safeguard the ship against welders' sparks, I consider myself valuable for about 20% of the working day. . . . Workmen string out the hours exchanging stories, sneaking smokes, sizing up jobs and bumping noggins. A passing boat or plane apparently justifies time off to estimate cargo, judge tonnage and type, etc., etc. . . . Recently, having sighted no sparks from welding operations atop a gun platform, I investigated to find a six-man crap game in hot progress. Most explanations revert to a common basis: "We gotta wait for the other...
Evil Commander. Captain Madsen and 38 men abandoned ship when three torpedoes ripped into their Norwegian vessel, virtually splitting it in two. Near by a U-boat surfaced. Its commander shouted the usual questions, demanded the ship's name, its cargo and destination. When Captain Madsen refused to give the enemy information, the Nazis cut loose with a machine gun, wounding Madsen...
...this flying the Army has promised to "lend-lease" new cargo planes to the airlines as fast as they come off production lines-a minimum of 300 by Christmas. Said General George: "The only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores of sturdy, twin-engined Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge...
...last week of May, a fleet of 29 airline-operated cargo ships hauled 899,000 Ib. of supplies-almost four times as much as Army pilots ever carried-along with 607 military passengers...
...single Pan Am plane shuttled between Brazil and Africa ten times in six days. Miles flown: 18,500. Cargo: officers, soldiers, medical supplies, oil and gasoline for African air bases...