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...Length 608 feet; beam 106'3". Has Curtis Turbines 33,376 HP. Four screws, 21 knots. Displacement 33,100 tons...
...Length 555 feet, beam 55'4. Has turbines with reduction gears, 90,000 HP. Four screws, 34 knots. Displacement 7,500 tons...
...Chairman Harrison E. Spangler went ahead with preconference plans to draft a policy which would offend no one. Some observers prophesied that this draft would be the only politically feasible result of Mackinac. But those wise in the ways of politcal campaigns guessed that Dewey was flying the popular beam...
...Weather Bureau has just developed a photoelectric instrument, using a vertical beam of light and a phototube scanning the beam, which quickly measures cloud heights day or night by triangulation...
Admiral Vickery, with an eye on the postwar seaways, thinks the U.S. should stop building Liberties and go to work on the Maritime Commission's Victory ship (13½ ft. longer, 5 ft. more beam, 4.6 knots faster). All summer he has pushed this program. All summer he has run smack into Willie Gibbs...