Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They blew up switches, heaped the tracks with wrecked rolling stock, made true Berlin's wry announcement that if lost, the Narvik ore port would be useless to the Allies for a long time to come. At Narvik, the British admitted losing their 4,290-ton anti-aircraft cruiser Curlew, specially armed to shoot down just what finally sank...
...cover Germany's surprise attack on Norway two months ago, Wedel sent one company of his PK men: 50 correspondents, 100 technicians. In charge went young Korvetten Kapitän Hahn. Aboard the German cruiser Blücher, when Norwegian shore batteries sent her down in the narrow waters of Oslo Fjord, Captain Hahn took the only films of a naval engagement shot thus far in World War II. Forced to swim, he got ashore with his pictures intact, but ran into a squad of Norwegian soldiers and destroyed the films to keep them from being captured...
...Three light cruisers, one torpedo cruiser, eight destroyers, six torpedo boats, 23 submarines, nine minelayers. But many Dutch cows were drowned by the defense floods...
...navy is shorebound without a merchant marine, which brings it food, supplies, oil. (One 10,000-ton cruiser at full power burns oil at the rate of 35 tons an hour.) In U. S. shipyards last week this lifeline-a brand-new merchant fleet-was also building: 118 cargo ships ordered by the U. S. Maritime Commission at a cost of better than $300,000,000. For a fillip, the yards had another $40,000,000 or more of private tankers and cargo ships under construction. To the U. S. shipbuilding industry, this added...
...others-Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock and U. S. Steel's Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock-can turn out anything up through a light cruiser...