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...biggest U.S. shipbuilding combination ever-the Todd-Bath-Kaiser fraternity-was broken up last week. Todd President John David Reilly announced the break by saying that Construction Engineer Henry J. Kaiser & pals had taken over four big Pacific Coast yards.* Todd-Bath couplings (twelve yards) stay put. Reilly's reason for the break: corporate simplification to speed the shipbuilding program...
...manufacture of many luxuries (including bath heaters, fur coats, evening dresses, horse and dog racing equipment) was stopped. Makers of women's stockings were restricted to four colors: candlelight, brown derby, touch of mauve, first love...
...Todd is now a shipbuilder as well as repairer. The British gave Todd an order for 60 cargo ships in 1940. Tying up with smart Bath Iron Works in Maine and the fabulous Henry Kaiser on the West Coast. Todd and associates now haye 16 yards building or repairing cargo boats and naval vessels as fast as they can. The first British ship was completed at Richmond. Calif, last month, only 13 months after the contract for the yard was signed...
...partly full of helium II is lowered part way into a bath of the same liquid, the levels within and without come gradually ... to the identical height, as if there were a perforation in the cup or a siphon over its rim-but there is no siphon and there is no perforation," writes Physicist Karl Kelchner Darrow of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Reviews of Modern Physics. "The cup need not even be partly full to start with-it can be empty initially, and the liquid will climb invisibly over its rim from the bath...
...Marshal Arthur William Tedder, R.A.F. Middle East Commander, and Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, commanding New Zealand forces-Knight Commander of the Bath...