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Topeka: One thing the Kansas press hasn't said and the people are saying is: "What the hell was the Navy doing out there?" Kansans can get over the unpleasant fact that we were given a good pasting, but they want to hit back. The Chew & Spit Club, which assembles daily on the sunny side of Topeka's Sixth and Kansas Avenues, wants to know when we will....The people are calm but determined....A bit of a fifth-column scare, bridges, railroads, public utilities, radio stations guarded....Enlistments up several hundred percent. Outwardly, everything is calm...
...first crashing blows were so widespread that it looked as if the Japanese were trying to realize their "Heavensent," Hell-patented ambition of dominating the Pacific all at one fell shock. Actually they had no such crazy plan. They had, instead, a pattern of attack for a first move which was brilliant, thorough, audacious, and apparently in its first two days, successfully carried through...
...citizens of five counties "seceded" from Oregon and California, elected a Governor, held a torchlight parade, carried signs reading Our Roads Are Not Passable, Hardly Jackass-able (their grievance was that neither Oregon nor California built roads to tap their rich minerals). Conceived in the spirit of what-the-hell-is-going-on-here, and dedicated to the proposition that any publicity is good, the State of Jefferson expected no long history, but its citizens hoped to get their roads...
Admiral Emory S. ("Jerry") Land, the tough little blue-eyed skipper of the Maritime Commission, has an answer to all that: "The Liberty ships are slow, but hell, they'll float, and by God they'll get there." A modest man, Jerry Land never adds that you couldn't say as much for some of the strange and wonderful aggregation of emergency merchantmen of World War I. There were ships of green wood that seasoned in transit, and took water with seams agape in seas like a mill-pond...
...kind of destroyer, faster by 25% than any of the 41-knot, steel-hulled speedsters the Navy is getting, and nimble-footed as a seagoing cat. "Skipper" Burgess had patented the design in 1937, had tested it, as well as he could without a full-scale model, from hell to breakfast. What worried Navymen was the material that Burgess had to use to get his speed-and-footing effect: aluminum. The Navy could not have had a seemingly good design thrown at it at a worse time, when aluminum supply (and magnesium, needed for alloy) is as strictured...