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Immobilized: the powerful old 22,146-ton aircraft carrier Beam; the 5,886-ton cruiser Emile Bertin; the 6,496-ton cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, at Guadeloupe; some small auxiliary craft. Most important, U.S. patrol vessels which have had to stand vigil will be freed for tasks elsewhere...
...Joan of Arc was (traditionally) a sweet-faced, lissome brunette who fired a disunited France and its weakling Dauphin to clear French soil of a 15th-Century invader...
...Americans were there to get guarantees against use by the Axis of any French possessions in the Caribbean. Purpose: to lock up the French warships in the area-the aircraft carrier Béarn and the cruiser Emile Berlin at Martinique, the cruiser Jeanne D'Arc at Guadeloupe-and some 100-odd weather-damaged fighter planes...
...celebration of Joan of Arc day, the Boston Chapter of France Forever will hold a giant rally in The New England Mutual Hall on Clarendon Street, Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. The Harvard unit will be represented by all members who can attend...
Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co. got an order for arc-welding electrodes, weighing 700 Ib. The order itself took a single sheet of paper. But with it came si Ib. of priority extensions, taking 597 sheets of paper (see cut). Each priority (199 in all) required typed fill-ins, two signatures (one notarized with seal). President James Finney Lincoln last week calculated that it cost him much less in money and man-hours to make the electrodes (which sold for $40.90) than to fill out the forms. When he thought of the man-hours spent by his customer...