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...Paper. Congress last month wrote down a second, still larger fleet-to-be, 70% (1,325,000 tons) bigger than the Navy then existing and planned. Reason: Hitler. With this new program, the U. S. Navy was to have the hitherto incredible total of: 15,000 airplanes, 35 battleships (including several 45,000-ton ones), 20 aircraft carriers, 88 cruisers, 378 destroyers, 180 submarines...
...voted, the U. S. people impatiently asked: How soon could all the new ships be off paper and in the water? The question was an old one. Romans asked it in 260 B.C., when Carthage cracked the whip in the Mediterranean. Rome's winning answer was its first fleet-100 galleys, knocked together on the beaches with hammer and saw in 60 days. But tomorrow's Navy is no two-month building job. Rear Admirals Samuel M. Robinson and Ben Moreell, the Navy's chiefs of new-ship construction, could give no better answer than...
...They proceeded to chart airports, survey highways, estimate the troop traffic which the Haiphong-Kunming railway might carry if Indo-China should by any chance allow troops to cross her territory. Merchants arrived lugging the Oriental equivalents of carpetbags. Three destroyers lay off the port of Haiphong. A large fleet, including no less than 18 troop transports, sped South Seawards from Formosa, destination unknown but possibly to help supervise traffic through Indo-China. Japanese closed the French-leased South China port of Kwangchowan, 150 miles from Indo-China...
...enormous fish haul with which Britain pieced out her imported food supply. But it was of the industrial Midlands that Adolf Hitler thought when he swore he would destroy Great Britain. They not only symbolized, they constituted, the Britain which dominated world trade. They built and supported the British Fleet, protected the empire. London is where warlike Winston Churchill lives and leads the British people. But Birmingham is where tradesman-like Neville Chamberlain was born and bred to honor, multiply and defend the pound sterling...
...seaward ventricle and auricle of the region, are prime targets of Britain's midsection. York, Derby, Peterborough, Spalding, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Chester are especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...