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Ships had always been custom-built. To mass-produce ships meant teaching a whole industry new tricks. Every ship had to be an exact replica of her sister. A State of Washington propeller had to fit on a shaft made in Wisconsin for a hull launched in Oregon...
...thunderous assembly shops men welded the shapes into ships' bows, sterns, houses, sections of hull - 35-50-ton assemblies which giant cranes lifted and placed on trucks...
...longer dodge the flashing torpedo planes. Two planes roared through the barrage and dropped their fish. The first torpedo hit squarely amidships. The second seemed to strike in the hole made by the first. Thick yellow smoke and flame vomited up with the spray. The 19,900-ton hull appeared to leap out of the water...
...industrious Hoosiers also do a thorough and not unscholarly job of tracing State Department policy, especially down the long, long trails to Vichy and Tokyo. Davis & Lindley feel that the Administration was never hoodwinked by the Lavals or Tojos and in the main successfully finessed them. Secretary Hull is pictured as having worn himself down in health and strength by some 60 secret conferences, mostly at night, with Japanese Ambassador Nomura in the last desperate months before Pearl Harbor. Hull's explanation of these parleys in his apartment: "The military fellows [U.S. and British] are after me to hold...
...Hull believes that the Japs would have struck in 1940 but for his policy. So do Davis & Lindley...