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...German naval strategy had partly brought about this change, but only partly. Her submarines had forced the Allied fleets to spread themselves thin, searching for the answer to a vast global problem of logistics that had consistently kept the superior surface force on the defense. Germany had partly brought the change about by starting to build her surface fleet during the starvation days of the Weimar Republic, and keeping up the program even when the pinch of war put the emphasis on U-boats...
...When George I arrived in England fresh from his native Hanover he brought along two mistresses: "spectrally thin" Madame Schulenburg, popularly known as The Maypole, and "monstrously fat" Madame Kielmansegge, popularly known as The Elephant. The first sight of them made London crowds hoot. Cried the Schulenburg: "Good pipple, what for you abuse us? We come for all your goots." A voice from the crowd: "Yes, and our chattels...
...advancement to the colored volunteer, who in the past has been suffered in the navy only as mess mate, steward, or cook. But on a comparative scale this move is hardly better than the closed door policy that the navy has clung to in the past through thick and thin...
With its strength spread thin, the U.S. Navy had a job on its hands to keep the sub packs from blocking sea lanes to the south. But it was determined that it would not fall in with Nazi plans by recalling U.S. destroyer fleets to home waters. Last week the Navy was given command of all anti-submarine activities off both the East and the West Coasts, which brought under its jurisdiction several air units of the U.S. Army...
...electrolytic method instead of the old-fashioned dip method. To do the job, Big Steel is dishing out $15,500,000 of its own cash for new plants & equipment at Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham. Besides this, the company is installing six new lines to treat black plate (i.e., thin steel plate) chemically. When lacquered by can-makers, chemically treated black plate makes a crackerjack substitute for tinplate in certain fields...