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...first carried away most of the Jervis Bay's main bridge and part of Captain Fegan's right arm. Bawling for more speed from his engines, more fire from his guns, he clambered to the after bridge. Another salvo wrecked the Jervis Bay's steering gear. She steamed straight ahead...
With his forward guns out of action, his steering gear gone, Captain Fegan had a hard time maneuvering to use his after guns. But with the wind he managed it, and with his ship in flames, his shredded arm dangling, he set out, when his after bridge was shot out from under him, for what was left of his main bridge...
...three shifts. Because Rustless sells only ingots, billets, slabs, bars, rods and wire, does no fabricating, "Tut" is not sure what percent of his sales go into defense. But stainless steel is used for turbine blades in warships, for the barrels of Garand rifles; in bomb sights, landing gear, machine-gun mounts, control equipment and other aircraft parts...
...issue before the colleges is thus squarely put by President Seymour's proposal. Either they should accept his grave view of the situation and gear themselves to a permanent program of military training, or they should accept the operation of the draft in the normal course of events and not change their program at all. In any event, a compromise is useless. A superficial course of lectures will aid no one and merely serves to divert the University's attention from the basic problems of why the war is fought to the mechanical details of how it is fought...
...movie season swung into high gear, Hollywood began peppering U. S. theatres thick & fast with a hybrid collection of pictures. Some of the fair, good and best were...