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Balding Winner Spangler made a double-jointed, fence-straddling statement. For the benefit of party progressives, he said: "... We haven't the same world, with the modern bomber, that we had in the days of the 30-knot battleship. You no longer can say that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are moats around America." For the benefit of party diehards: "My job is to build up an army of voters in the United States to defeat the New Deal, and I don't think there are any votes in China or Mongolia or Russia that...
...Navy said that three aircraft carriers and one battleship had been sunk. Two more carriers and a second battleship had been damaged badly enough to be included in another summary of specific losses. The Japanese thus admitted that five carriers and two battleships had been put out of action-a total very near the U.S. claim that six carriers and two battleships had been sunk...
When war broke out Lukens was a natural-for one thing its big mill could roll plates twice as thick and 40 in. wider than anyone else. So the Navy placed orders for battleship armor up to 9½ in. thick, welded marine-engine blocks and submarine parts; the Army ordered light tank armor, antiaircraft gun bases, other fabricated steel parts. To boost output faster Defense Plant Corp. okayed a $25,000,000 plant expansion (total plant in 1940: $8,385,000). Result: in 1939-42 Lukens almost tripled employment to 6,000, quadrupled sales to $47,000,000, multiplied...
...excellent air war game, and bought up the rights to a French infantry war game, L'Attaque! In 1932 he put all three together in one package as Tri-Tactics. (Gibson sold a whole set of his war games for use in the wardroom of the lost British battleship H.M.S. Hood.) Twice bombed out of its posh showrooms and factories by the Germans, the Gibson firm now struggles to manufacture its product in what might be a ramshackle garage, its manufacture cut by priorities to 15%, its staff reduced to 10% of peacetime...
Pratt & the Graf Spee. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt of New York City invented in 1929 and has since developed a Naval War Game which actually approximates sea war. One night in 1939 the players looked at each other and whistled. Three light ships had just sunk the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, a supposedly impossible feat. But their calculations showed it could be done-and they were not so much surprised as vindicated when the Graf Spee actually got her comeuppance in just that way six months later off Brazil...