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...sub got three tankers in all, damaged a fourth later off Curaçao. Its shore-aimed fire, directed at Standard Oil Co.'s big refinery, did no damage.' But the Axis had carried the war into the Caribbean, only 750 miles from the Panama Canal...
From the time he got his sub-cabinet appointment last May, he was up to his neck in Air Corps affairs. He led the job of wheedling manufacturers into forgetting company pride, building the other fellow's planes (e.g., Douglas builds Boeing bombers...
...reported toll of submarine operations along the East Coast was twelve ships, some 350 lives. The day the Lady Hawkins' fate became known coast guardsmen landed at Chincoteague, Va. a handful of near-dead seamen, survivors of the torpedoed tanker Francis E. Powell. Reports that two Axis subs are operating in the Gulf of Mexico brought a complete blackout along 100 miles of Texas coast. The success of counter-measures was the Navy's own secret. Just one hint was allowed to slip through. The Navy released a terse report of one unnamed flyer: "Sighted sub, sank same...
...sub-themes which blast at the conservatism of West Point, and at the corruption of the government, are hasty and unconvincing. The main theme, which claims that imperialism is bad when it is for money, good when it is for the glory of the country, confuses the film rather than unifies...
...rubber industry's war work is rubber. Biggest surprise is Firestone's $20,000,000 order for 40-mm. Bofors anti-aircraft gun mounts and carriages. Weeks ahead on this contract, Firestone is also turning out machine-gun clips, other metal war goods. Goodyear is making sub-assemblies for Martin bombers. Goodrich makes fuel tanks and operates a $35,000,000 ordnance plant in Texas. U.S. Rubber makes zippers ("Kwik") for uniforms and operates an $86,000,000 arms plant in Iowa...