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Captain Adair nodded, ducked to miss a bath of chilling spray...
Destroyers. The U.S. started the war with 171, has admitted losing 22, including 13 in the Solomons, but has launched several times that many. Example: the Bath Iron Works alone turns out one destroyer every two weeks. Despite some fumblings, delays in machinery deliveries and other scandals, the destroyer program is one of the brightest spots in the Navy shipbuilding program...
...three months the committee had investigated the plant, organized by William S. ("Pete") Newell, president of Bath Iron Works and good friend of Maritime Commission head Rear Admiral Emory S. Land. Pete Newell and associates had organized the firm with $250,000 borrowed from Portland banks (the interest to be paid by the Maritime Commission) and up to Oct. 31 had received $450,000 in fees from the Commission...
...which sounds more like an oration than a battlefront dispatch--go by the boards, and nobody much cares. It's really a better-than-average plot, and the mustached hero is his usual charming self. Miss Turner's bodily presence in an assortment of gay dresses and one bath towel is enough to bring the spectators in droves. She isn't too bad an actress, either. Robert Sterling, as the kid brother, is fair enough. The film is never boring, and its value to you is strictly a matter of taste. For them as likes a good neck. "Somewhere...
...first the correspondents lived in foxholes. When the marines had the situation in hand, the correspondents got a five-bunk tent ("The Press Club") with a luxurious wood floor and a water-bucket shower bath...