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Unlike munitions makers, merchant shipbuilders have little fear of shortages. The average cargo-ship hull requires 3,000 tons of steel plate. The ships to be built this year-about 770-will thus need 2,-310,000 tons-about five months' output for a single mill like Carnegie-Illinois's huge Gary works. Builders plan to make only as many C-2 and C-3 freighters as they can get turbines for. The rest of the program, mostly "ugly ducklings," will get easy-to-make reciprocating engines and old-type Scotch boilers (which can be replaced by modern...
...Navy launch toward the minefield sown in the harbor's mouth beyond Corregidor's forbidding heights. Somehow in the dark she ran past the launch. The warning shout from the launch was lost in a vast red explosion. The old Corregidor, her hull burst, settled in shark-ridden waters...
...when German Chargé d'Affaires Hans Thomsen slipped out of his embassy to deliver Germany's declaration to Secretary Hull. When the Secretary did come, Dr. Thomsen was told that he was "engaged." Finally Dr. Thomsen delivered his note to the Chief of the European Division, went glumly back to the ramshackle old red-brick Embassy...
...Lytle Hull, the ex-Mrs. Vincent Astor, vice-chairman of the New York State Defense Savings Committee, decided to give everybody the same Christmas present: books of defense saving stamps...
Meanwhile CBS's Al Warner had read Secretary of State Cordell Hull's denunciatory response to the Japanese note. CBS's Major George Fielding Eliot, wits collected, aired the evidence (submarines in mid-Pacific) that Japan had planned the attack for at least two weeks, declared it a suicide squad assignment. NBC's Upton Close in San Francisco wondered over the air whether the Japanese Government had known its Navy was about to strike...