Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Economist James Paul Warburg, an early New Dealer, then a fervent anti (Hell Bent for Election) and finally, in 1944, a doorbell-ringer for Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. Field and Warburg's ambition is to set up as a rival to powerful Western Newspaper Union which sends boiler-plate material ("pretty reactionary") to U.S. weeklies. Says Field, grinning: "I don't think I'll make my fortune here...
...three Axis leaders scurry in terror before a thick hail of junked scrap-metal -wrenches, chainlinks, pots & pans, hammerheads, nuts & bolts, ashcans, an ancient boiler, a potbellied stove, a chamber...
...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...
...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...