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...fires slowly burned themselves out. About 9 o'clock the first night men were able to get into the engine room and light one boiler. As the hours went by, the other vital functions were restored-water pumps, communications, ventilation, power. By noon of March 20, four boilers were lighted and the Pittsburgh cast off. The cripple was able to make 14 knots under her own power. By the second day, still convoyed by cruisers and destroyers, which again & again had to fight off Jap planes, she was making a steady 20 knots...
...five-inch guns, all exactly scaled. Parked on her flight deck are faithfully scaled models of Helldivers, Hellcats, Avengers and Corsairs (donated by the manufacturers). Her innards-which visitors may see if they buy a war bond-contain a model of a carrier's boiler room, a section of enlisted men's quarters complete with pin-up girls on the bulkheads...
...Frazer started his dizzy fiscal feat with the Warren City Tank & Boiler Co., Warren, Ohio (pop. 43,000). The company's $7,000.000 plant was built by the Navy but, under private management, was falling down on the job of making landing barges, etc. So Joe Frazer, fresh from doing a bang-up production job at Willys-Overland Motors Inc., took over...
...formed a new company. Warren City Manufacturing Co., capitalized it for $500 ( 5 (500 shares : par value $ 1 ) . Then he bought the assets of Warren City Tank & Boiler with part of a $4,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan, 100% guaranteed by the Navy. He put in no money except $50,000 he lent the company...
...train-busting. The Syszmanski technique: "I come in from the back of a train, aiming at the third car from the engine. I watch the bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh. Others just puke steam-I only claim them as damaged...