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Biggest reason for this surprise stockpile is that many a freighter hauling men & munitions to Australia comes back cargo-full of wool. Wool supplies available this year are now estimated at 1,100,000,000 lb.-twice a normal year's consumption. But even this mountain of wool may not be enough: some of it is earmarked for Lend-Lease, and outfitting a new soldier takes about 200 lb. of wool, whereas civilians usually get along on five...
...being flown across the oceans of the world and the Ferrying Command has become as important as any of the fighting outfits. It has become more vocal. Ship sinkings by Axis submarines have thrown a load on air power and the Ferrying Command is shouting for more cargo carriers...
Progressive, independent automaker Nash-Kelvinator got into the big time for fair last week with a no-ceiling Navy order to build huge, fat-bellied flying boats for long-range ocean cargo service...
...barnacled cargo bottoms the U.S. was still taking a nasty booting from the Axis. The kicking around, started five months ago, had sunk some 250 ships, disrupted coastal shipping, raised a great hue & cry in the press for sterner anti-submarine measures by the Navy...
Crates & DDs. Constructing cargo vessels (like the Liberty ship) is not comparable with naval shipbuilding. The Liberty is by comparison little more than a long steel crate pinched together at the ends...