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Nilcolayev, a center of shipbuilding, had scarcely an intact factory. A partly completed 35,000-ton battleship had been blown up. A cruiser, one-third armor-plated, lay toppled off its ways, which had been burned under it. Two unfinished submarines had also been destroyed...
...behind the Navy's ordnance program is tall, spruce, 51-year-old Rear Admiral Blandy, whose consuming passions are ordnance and gunnery. When he was gunnery officer on the U.S.S. New Mexico from 1927 to 1929, the battleship twice won the Battle-Efficiency Pennant ("Meatball" to the sailors) as well as a pair of gunnery trophies and two turret Es. Says a pal: "Spike's idea of a perfect target practice was to shoot the masts off the target ship from 8,000 yards, starting with the top and working down. Throwing shells into the hull was shooting...
...arrival was an odd contrast to that cold, rainy morning last January when he steamed up Chesapeake Bay on Britain's biggest battleship, to be met at Annapolis by Franklin Roosevelt. This time only a State Department emissary was on hand to greet Lord and Lady Halifax...
...Marve" Barrett, replete with red, black, and yellow cross-flecked, post-Tattersall waistcoat, apple-green pants, and cross gaiters, blurted out, the advance announcement that the Advocate is planning to strike off a special medal in honor of the "actress" and to knit her a special cherry-red and battleship-grey Advocate cravat...
Unlike the two Harvard men who went in the bus with the group the other day because they expected a tour of the plant and a visit to the battleship Massachusetts, the youthful organizers take their work very seriously. And it's no job for the timid...