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...force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon saw a standard Japanese naval pattern: a big carrier (the new, 50-plane Ryukaku) steaming astern of two cruisers. The U.S. planes were still ten miles away when the cruisers' guns spat red and yellow flame. At four miles, the enemy anti-aircraft fire was thick and fierce. But the planes ignored the cruisers and flew on toward the carrier...
...into a frantic, leftward circle to dodge the U.S. bombs. The maneuver failed. So did the efforts of the cruisers, firing shells into the water ahead of low-flying torpedo-planes, hoping they would fly into the geysers. Bombs ripped into the Ryukaku, mantling her decks in smoke and flame. A gun mount soared lazily upward, curved overside into the sea. Then the torpedoes struck home, squarely amidships. Later the Navy said that at least 15 bombs and ten torpedoes hit the Jap ship. The Ryukaku had completed her third circle when she sank, with most of her planes still...
...Professor Fred Eastman of Chicago's Theological Seminary wrote in the Christian Century: "Our young dramatists would do well to consider the psychological nature of this weapon of hate by which they seek to improve our morale. Hatred is a consuming fire. The dramatists may fan this flame, but they cannot control it. Some day ... it will spread through our own midst and blaze out in race riots, in conflicts between Capital and Labor, and in the violent rebellion of our dispossessed sharecroppers...
...spray gun is a fist-fitting gadget which trails three rubber hoses and a ⅛-in. wire-the charge. Two of the hoses feed acetylene and oxygen (as in welding) to a 6,300° F. flame, melting the wire. From the third hose, compressed air blows the hot-metal droplets in a molten mist that coats a surface with a smooth film as tough as a weld...
...broaching the barrel that cut that operation from 3½ hours to 15 minutes; another parts maker improvised machine-gun equipment that beats regular arsenal machinery by 20-30 times; an automatic cannon that cost $1,200 to make 18 months ago now costs around $600; a new flame-cutting process turned out 12 tank-engine sprockets in 6 minutes v. 8 hours formerly required for a single sprocket...