Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen days from keel laying to delivery date is indeed a record of which American shipbuilders can well be proud. This seems a far advance from the 47 years required to construct the U.S.S. Alabama. Originally intended as a storeship, her keel was laid at Portsmouth, Va. Navy Yard in 1817 but not until April 23, 1864 was she launched. A record of 47 years under construction...
...Alabama indeed ranks high among the curiosa of shipbuilding. Laid down as a last-word, 86-gun ship of the line, she was held up by several stingy Congresses. Finally launched in the Civil War, she was too antiquated for anything except a floating warehouse...
...benefit of the soldier and the family he leaves behind, many of the nation's debt and tax laws were suspended fortnight ago. Into effect went the Sparkman Act (after Alabama's Congressman John J. Sparkman), which tries to guarantee that no soldier shall return to find his home foreclosed, his insurance policies lapsed and his family out in the street. The new law bolsters earlier attempts to protect the serviceman, plugs the loopholes, sets up as solid a protective fence as any soldier could ask for. Outstanding provisions...
When A. Lincoln made that statement about how long the public could be fooled, he was assuming that the politicians depended on the democratic vote to put them in office. But in Alabama, Arkansas, Geargia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, the politicians only have to fool five to ten per cent of people every election year. It's not a matter of fooling at all. It's strictly a matter of playing along with the political machine: because ninety per cent of the electorates in these eight southern states not only will not, but cannot vote. They cannot...
These men of the islands represent every State. The smallest island has soldiers from 35 States on its roster, but Alabama and Connecticut predominate. Their devotion to duty is strong. Their life is lonely and boresome, but they know they are doing a job. In their tents or their barracks at night they are constantly and rashly offering $10 for a chocolate malted or $20 for a glimpse of a blonde. They tell each other they would give a cool million dollars, perhaps a billion, to get back home "just for a week or two." But they stick hard...