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British guess was that the cruiser, recently torpedoed by an English sub, was being moved somewhere-probably into the Baltic-for dockyard repairs...
...Navy needed more destroyers, more sub chasers, more blimps, more of other craft that could be used to convoy coastal shipping until the subs were knocked out. Until it got them it could only stand by and watch traffic be hamstrung by overnight dashes into sheltered harbors, by limited convoys, by other makeshifts that sadly slowed the pulse of United Nations commerce...
...door canvassing, is designed to bring the bond and stamp drive directly before the attention of the college. "The canvassing plan proved unsuccessful because of the difficulty involved in finding volunteers who would carry on the work with the necessary diligence," stated Richard L. Hall '43, chairman of the sub-committee charged with the bond sales...
...extra-curricular activity at Yale will undergo drastic changes and reductions for the duration of the war, the Yale News reports. The revamping, to take effect this summer, was announced by the University after plans submitted by the undergraduate organizations had been approved by a special sub-committee of the Corporation's Committee on Educational Policy...
...comparatively small corporation near New London promptly became one of the most important firms in the U.S. The Electric Boat Co., on the Thames River at Groton, Conn., has almost a monopoly of U.S. sub-building know-how. Only other U.S. sub-builders are two Navy yards (Portsmouth, N.H. and Mare Island, Calif.) and a new private venture at Manitowoc, Wis. Even the Manitowoc yard is staffed and supervised (not owned) by Electric Boat Co., and its product is Ebco-guaranteed. All three rival yards combined have fewer ways, less equipment than Ebco. Ebco got started in 1899 when...