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...Again. Early this year hopeful Harold Ickes tried again, again had his face pushed in. But with the transfer of some 300 tankers to war service, and the East Coast sub sinkings, oil reserves on the Eastern Seaboard dropped 2,000,000 bbl. a week. Mr. Ickes started digging up and relocating old lines, using second-hand pipe to improve a vastly inadequate system. In May he went to WPB with another plea for steel allocations. There were conferences. WPBoss Donald Nelson emerged from lunch at the White House to declare with finality: "The pipeline is out unless you want...
What the replies would allege in self-justification or palliation was anybody's guess, and guess everybody did. Buenos Aires newspapers sarcastically guessed that the German sub-commander had mistaken the sky-blue-&-white markings of nonbelligerent Argentina for the medium-blue-&-white markings of belligerent Honduras, that he had failed to perceive 4-ft.-high letters reading REP. ARGENTINA. Best guess was that Germany and Argentina would repeat the routine following the 1940 torpedoing of the Argentine merchantman Uruguay off the Spanish coast: Argentina protested; Germany's reply was accepted; neither was ever published...
...press was a new note of apprehension that the Navy was not attacking the U-boat problem with sufficiently imaginative vigor, despite the patrol planes, bombers, blimps and surface craft that are dumping bombs and depth charges wherever an enemy sub is suspected...
...confusion in the Navy's fleet-building program. But if Mr. Lippmann had pressed his inquiry he would have discovered that Navy production transcends anything dreamed of a year ago; that production records are being shattered as battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and the sorely needed escort ships and sub-chasers slide down the ways; that U.S. naval ' builders know a great deal about mass production; that ships are being mass-produced; that, in short, naval construction in the last five months has been phenomenal...
...first five months of 1942, shipyards delivered ten times as many PC boats (deadliest enemies of the sub) as they had delivered...