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Whatever the solution, the West Coast wanted one quickly. Its uneasiness was growing. In Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, a battered mess of old metal dumped on a dock-the wreckage of Japanese planes and of U.S. planes destroyed by the Japs at Pearl Harbor-was a sinister reminder to West Coasters of what neglect and apathy can do in wartime. There was heard again the old muttered word, called up out of the smoky history of pistol battles, its syllables still rumbling like the horse hoofs of a posse ". . . Vigilantes...
...soon as the last Scot was across, mines which sappers had placed under the Causeway were touched off. Great chunks of the narrow strip jumped into the night sky. Its 510-foot dock and its rolling lift bridge were blown...
...such a saving may be doubly important, for they must not only buy but haul their fuel. Cargo capacity of merchant ships, cruising range of warships can be upped by a 25 to 40% economy of fuel. (A mercury-powered ship was planned in 1938 by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., then postponed until mercury's problems were overcome...
...flight from Corinth, through the Peloponnesus to a little fishing port where a British destroyer finally picked them up, was a nightmare. More than once St. John and his friends were nearly shot as parachutists because of their knapsacks. On the embarkation dock they watched hundreds of trucks being put out of commission. The drivers shot holes in the tires, raced the engines without oil or water so that they would be ruined...
...year, the U.S. Navy had chartered as handsome a yacht as there is in the world. The square-rigged auxiliary barkentine Sea Cloud, in time of peace, supplied Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies with the kind of transportation they liked best. Last week, at a Baltimore dock, awed workmen were busy removing the Davies' doodads to prepare the Sea Cloud for service in the Coast Guard...