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...thought came over me,' Captain Smith told me afterward, 'the bloody bastards are going to sink us without trace...
German U-boats, German bombers, the German Fleet sink or seriously damage between them each month a total of 700,00 to 1,000,000 tons of British and Allied shipping. All attempts at finding a satisfactory means of defense . . . have failed disastrously. . . . Even President Roosevelt openly stated that, for every five ships sunk by Germany, Britain and America can build only two new ones...
Meanwhile, Photographer Scherman went on taking pictures without inter ference. Indeed, as the Nazis prepared to sink the Zamzam with time bombs, a Nazi lieutenant showed Scherman the best place to stand. Said he in precise English: "Sometimes they die quite gracefully and always they are different...
Great tongues of flame leap from the sun, a half-million miles into space, sink back and leap again. Sometimes, strangely, clouds of gases appear out of nowhere far above the sun and blazing streamers lick back toward the sun's surface like prankish backward-movies of a high diver. What elements, astronomers have puzzled, form the corona? Where do the backward-flowing flames come from...
...spread into the Middle East and tankers continued to sink in the Atlantic, the Maritime Commission planned to withdraw 50 tankers of the 345 in the U.S.'s intercoastal trade, put them into shuttle service for Britain. This week the first batch of 25 tankers are being shifted...