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Suicide of a Fleet. The first German armored force, having fought its way into the base, reached Milhaud dock where the battleship Strasbourg was lying. As German officers leaped from their cars and ran to the gangplanks, there was a flash and a roar and the great, 26,500-ton ship disintegrated before their eyes...
...financial arrangements. For building a Liberty ship (average cost $1,800,000), the standard contractor's fee, covering undefined "overhead," is $110,000-based on a par building time of 105 days. Days saved can raise the fee to a $140,000 maximum; days over par can dock it to a minimum of $60,000. Every item chargeable to the building of a ship the Maritime Commission pays. Thus Pete Newell and associates stand to make more than $5 million on the 84 ships without putting up a nickel of their own, and despite alleged incompetence, inefficiency and delay...
...Dock das alles, alles hat sie nicht begehrtl Meaning in American...
...plans of the Allies in the Mediterranean theater, British bombers last week took the high road to Italy over the Alps, blasted the great port of Genoa with many two-ton bombs. They made the 1,400-mile round trip on two successive nights, left 27 acres of the dock area, large parts of the industrial and business sections in flaming ruins. The Air Ministry termed the attacks "Genoa's heaviest of this...
...crew stroked by Varsity captain Bus Curwen which lost its early lead in the last 100 yards when one of the oarsmen caught a crab in the choppy sea. Finishing in a dead heat with a crew stroked by only man. Curwen followed Wood by only a dock-length...