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...book that has been compiled is the result of an investigation undertaken several months ago upon the request of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Information in regard to the 60 odd trades involved in the construction of ships is so compiled by the Bureau as to be readily understood by men who are not acquainted with technical terms used by ship-builders. Thus it is now possible for a man to obtain quickly and easily information in regard to some particular trade connected with ship construction. When it is considered that more than 250,000 and possibly more than...
Approximately 120 men will be graduated at this time, of whom 40 or more will be former members of the University. All who passed the course successfully will be commissioned reserve ensigns and most of them will be assigned to the Atlantic fleet...
...under the Stars and Stripes for many a year. He had not reckoned on our engineers. In a short time the German liners were ready to go to sea, the Vaterland was taken on a trip to the Panama Canal and was overhauled there, and now the entire repatriated fleet has landed its thousands of troops in France...
...past lamentable failure in the speedy building of the indispensable implements of modern war, and of the great transport fleet which alone will enable us to utilize our giant strength after we have developed it, must merely spur us on to efficient action in the present and the future. To refuse to see and to point out these failures is both silly and unpatriotic...
...more important than that, whether, when they arrive, they will be able to throw enough weight into the balance of the present deadlock to bring about a decisive victory. By spring our troops and ordnance should be ready to go abroad, by summer we should have a huge fleet of fighters with which to supply our Overseas Force, by October or November the first American drive should be on. We cannot expect an immediate advance on Berlin; but few of our troops have had their baptism of fire, and the war game must be learned...