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...Washington's onetime great had faded away; their jobs were no longer important or they had been tried by war and found wanting. Jesse Jones had lost much of his power, more of his prestige. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins had virtually no job left. Good, grey Cordell Hull, who returned to his desk this week after a long rest in Florida, had seen the world shrink smaller and smaller...
...Army, the Navy and Donald Nelson's War Production Board. By executive order, BEW took stockpile control from the slow hands of Jesse Jones. BEW took the final say on international trade away from the State Department, the first successful raid by the New Deal on Secretary Hull's demesne since...
Then, after the Jap had left, the destroyers finished the job. The old covered wagon, like a crippled dog, was still on her feet. The destroyers swung alongside, sent shell after shell into her hull. Finally she was totally hit. Low in the water, she lurched, bubbled horribly, went down. Her airplanes were safe from...
...nosed through the harbor nets in the Loire estuary under a bright dome of anti-aircraft fire that brought into sharp relief the gaunt lines of her ancient U.S. hull. Around her, the motor gunboats and torpedo boats whined and sputtered. Above her. R.A.F. bombers roared and pounded. From the shore two powerful searchlights sought her out, and as the land batteries cut loose with furious cross-fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every...
...North Dakota, scrapped before the march of naval progress, was a Mississippi scow compared with the U.S.S. Washington, one of the newest battlewagons, with her heavy armor protection for crews above decks (against shell and bomb splinters), her massive armament (topped by nine 16-inchers), her imposing hull and turret armor, her sleek, low-lying speed lines...