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...Torpedo" game, started by a Buffalo aircraft engineer, caught on quickly. Its rules: for every enemy battleship sunk by the U.S., the player buys $5 worth of defense stamps, for an airplane carrier $4, cruiser $3, destroyer $2, submarine $1, any other ship...
...Winsted, Conn., citizens started a fund to replace the sunken battleship Arizona...
...took a face from one photograph, a sky or a piece of building from another, joined them together like pieces of a mosaic, and enlarged the results until they were several times life size. The photographs came from U.S. scenes as far apart as Boulder Dam and Vermont. The battleship at the top came from the picture files of LIFE; airplanes came from the Paramount picture I Wanted Wings. The California farm worker at left glances back at a caterpillar tractor from Washington which has just passed over a Montana wheat field nestling at the foot of Glacier National Park...
NAVY The Senate was willing to authorize the Navy to build 900,000 tons of new warships. The Navy sc'aled the figure down to 150,000 tons. Then the amateur strategists began to strut their stuff. Air power, said they, had made the battleship obsolete. The Navy had reduced its tonnage because it was afraid to build battleships, after the Hawaii fiasco...
...Lieutenant Clarence A. Keller, 31-year-old Kansas Navy flyer. He sighted a Japanese battleship, trailed her. despite heavy anti-aircraft fire, until other planes arrived, and scored one, possibly two direct hits...