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...nearly a century Philadelphians proudly pointed to Cramp's, the shipyards that made the slow-moving Delaware the "Clyde of America." When William Cramp founded the shipyard in 1830, he built fleet wooden clippers, helped make the U. S. one of the world's greatest seafaring nations. In the Civil War, Cramp's helped turn the tide for the Union with ironclads and monitors...
...fifth attempt succeeded. Reason: the U. S. Navy. After scared Congressmen began appropriating for a two-ocean fleet this summer, Secretary Frank Knox wrote Philadelphia's supercautious Mayor Robert Eneas Lamberton: "The Navy is desirous of having Cramp's reopened at the earliest possible time." With every other U. S. ocean shipyard strained to practical capacity, the idleness of Cramp's six ways, huge gantries, echoing shops and foundries could not continue...
...means surprising is the fact that war brought a box-office boom to British cinema theatres. It was to be presumed that cinemaddicts would seek escape in rip-roaring thrillers, wacky comedies, sprightly musicals. Not at all. Last week their favorites were grim documents of the Fleet in action, airmen swooping, bombs falling, factories roaring-anything and everything to do with war. Along with these rousing shots of what people see every day the Ministry of Information was offering a surprise package in a group of five-minute shorts...
...easy. His method is to state, with great clarity, the peril to the U. S. if England falls. He points out that in that case no commitment, however solemn, short of America's participation in the war as an ally, can bind the British Fleet to sail to Canada or the U. S. Only if the U. S. were fighting by Britain's side could British sailors feel guaranteed that they and their ships would be used to reconquer their homes, free their families. Granting Brailsford's premises, his conclusion is inevitable: it is only enlightened self...
...England alone is not enough. Ignoring the possibility that in two or three years Britain might herself have an air force that would dominate the Continent as her fleet dominated the seas for generations, he argues that unless England and its fleet, hence the U. S., is to live perpetually under the threat of German air power, that power must be destroyed at its base: Germany must be invaded and conquered. This job the British Empire is no longer strong or rich enough to do. At this point the cat pops out of the bag. Pleader Brailsford declares that only...