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...that for 68 days the U.S. waited with bated breath while she raced against time: she had completed her shakedown cruise in the Pacific in time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have her boiler cleaned, her bottom scraped. And she arrived off the Cuban coast just in time to wade into the Battle of Santiago...
...Remarkable Andrew" is far from trite, but equally dull. Its rather weird plot concerns the plight of Andrew Long, a strait-laced city employee who is framed by crooked politicians. With the unseen help of the ghost of his namesake Andy Jackson (not to mention the spirits of Washington, Marshall, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.) Andrew Long finally manages to extricate himself. But for a while in the picture even his friends wonder a bit when they observe him talking to people they can't see. Meanwhile the audience is just as baffled by the superfluity of ghosts whose figures they...
...imports were put in a strait jacket last week. Starting July 2, practically nothing can be imported from anywhere without express authorization of the War Production Board. Primary and only ostensible purpose of the new order was to make sure that no precious shipping space is wasted on imports the U.S. can do without. Secondary but studiously unmentioned result is to give the Government an important new weapon of economic warfare...
...line's weakest link, the Bering Strait water jump, Mr. Cutcheon believes dense mine fields and constant, massive air patrols would give ample protection...
...letter, Barron's editors made the obvious comment that it was an "unusually interesting" idea, but threw cold water on it because of the time element: the war might be over before the line was finished. Mr. Cutcheon, however, had another idea-extending the Alaska highway to Bering Strait and moving freight there by truck. That raised the possibility of a truck route paralleling the rail route all the way to industrial Russia, and perhaps built first...