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...passenger Globe American lifeboats, one motor-equipped, all equipped with oars, red sails, water, food, signaling and first-aid equipment. Every day at Kokomo four fully equipped boats are put on a flatcar, shipped to Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf shipyards, there hoisted to the davits of a new U.S. cargo vessel. Day after Franklin Roosevelt announced his Victory Program, Alden Chester wired the Maritime Commission, offered to furnish all lifeboats and life rafts needed for the entire merchant-marine building program-without subcontracting...
From foggy Puget Sound to the foggy Gulf of Maine, 171 U.S. vessels-more than on any other ocean route-used to shuttle through the Panama Canal from coast to coast. They flew 16 house flags, in good years like 1937 carried almost seven million tons of cargo. But their rate wars were frequent, their earnings usually poor...
...night an enterprising few U.S. soldiers worked hard at an odd project: they went diving, trying to salvage the cargo of a capsized barge rumored to have had whiskey aboard. No one tried to stop them. Douglas MacArthur knew that his men were good men as long as they could relax in their off hours, as long as they wisecracked about bombs and the hand of death above them...
...Army today has only about 7,000 mules-about half the number it had ten years ago-it has never discovered anything on wheels that could replace the mule. As careless of heat and cold as of man's advice, the mule has no substitute as troop or cargo carrier in jungle, desert, or mountain pass. In Panama the mule has proved far better than trucks in climbing steep trails, working through lush forests...
...fulfill its share of the President's new program (60,000 planes, etc.), the Maritime Commission placed orders for 632 more cargo vessels of 7,676,000 tons...