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...shores of the old world to the shores of the new, there is not much known; it had little of the romance of the first, and not much of its terror and hardship. It came at a time when the Admiral was at the height of his fortunes: his fleet was big and well-equipped (although his flagship La Capitana, nicknamed La Galante by the sailors, was so slow that it held up the others) and the weather was fine, the northwest trades strong, and the reckonings true...
...they sound; only three of the British ships, the battle cruisers Hood, Repulse and Renown, can match the 30 knots of Germany's battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The new German battleships will be equally fast, forming a homogeneous line of speedsters which will outweigh the British Fleet's fast division 5-to-3 until Britain can finish five new dreadnaughts of the King George V class-probably about mid-1941. By then the ratio will favor the British, but only 8-to-6, which, with German armor, guns and marksmanship taken into account, may almost...
Gene Lovett is the only returning out-fielder with Varsity experience, but Mike Rice, the fleet Yardling leader of a year ago, and Les Pitchford seem headed for stardom in Crimson pastures. Lee Hartstone and Bill Wood will add the veteran flavor to Coach Stahl's out-field operatives...
...lesson into practice. For a fat $1,600,000, he sold four of his tired old (20-21 years) tubs to Great Britain, which needs cargo ships to transport war supplies. This gave Mr. Farley cash in the bank with which to begin replacing his fleet of 34 ships (average age: 23 years), if he wants to. His four old ships, out of service until the war boom, netted him the fancy price...
Other U. S. shipowners jealously eyed the deal. And well they might. For within three years 90% of the U. S.'s 2,345-ship, 8,909,892-ton seagoing merchant fleet will be obsolete (over 20 years old). To replace it the Maritime Commission's ten-year (1938-48) building program calls for 500 new ships, of which 38 have already left the ways. Whatever old bottoms can be sold at wartime (instead of scrap) prices will be just so much gravy for U. S. shipowners, will help pay for a fine new U. S. fleet...