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...press conference, he put his mood in a parable about Ford Motor Co. According to the NLRB and a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ford has violated the Wagner Act. Yet the company has received contracts to make aircraft engines, a fleet of tiny armored cars for the Army...
World War I caught the U. S. with a miserable little merchant fleet of 430 cargo and passenger ships. Foreign bottoms carried over 90% of U. S. overseas trade. When the Allies set up a cry for ships to offset U-boat sinkings in early 1917, the U. S. responded with its Bridge of Ships. The program, carried out by the U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp., built 2,316 ships-the biggest, fastest shipbuilding program ever undertaken...
Newshounds sniffing around the Norfolk (Va.) Navy Yard last week reported that the old (1911), 26,000-ton battleship Wyoming was being furbished up with new guns and armor, would be returned to fleet duty. Because the Wyoming has long been used only to train new sailors and officers, this report sounded as if the Navy were getting ready to buckle on everything...
...living the French were bearing. France still had a Navy, which was headed by Admiral Darlan-no lover of Britain since Oran and Dakar, but no lover of Germany either and certainly not of Italy; a man who loves only France and who could devise uses for his Fleet which would not be convenient to the Axis. France still had an economy. Last week Finance Minister Yves Bouthillier presented a budget for the first four months of 1941, approximately 40,000,000 francs ($880,000) of which 6,000,000 ($142,000) was for military expenses. The Government had recently...
They were mostly three-or four-story structures-musty headquarters for centuries of proud merchant traders, insurance brokers and craftsmen who preferred tradition to comfort. Here & there stood the steel skeleton of a modern building, its girders fantastically warped and bulged by heat. Fleet Street, mecca of British journalism, was badly hit, and behind it stood the blackened hulk of the Associated Press building. St. Bride's white spire, Wren's "madrigal in stone," stood alone over the ruins of the church. Supreme amid wreckage rose the great dome of St. Paul's, saved through the devotion...