Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen thousand employes quit work. Launching of the Navy's new cruiser Atlanta was postponed. Work on $450,000,000 worth of destroyers, freighters, oil tankers ceased. From Washington this week came reports that the Navy might seize the plant. The management's answer: the Navy could have...
...Jacksonville, Fla., where the St. Johns River flows into the Atlantic, 53 men, women" & children on the excursion cruiser Ruby Lee were luckier. When the Ruby Lee let go a starboard plank, filled and sank in the mouth of the river, all the crew and passengers were saved. Captain S. E. Baitray sputtered: " 'Twould have been different a few minutes later . . . then we'd have been in the open...
Cost of a gravel-top road, under a bill introduced in the House by Delegate Anthony Joseph Dimond of Alaska, would be about $25,000,000-roughly the price of a new 10,000-ton cruiser. Until last week the whole plan sounded pretty far-fetched to the House. But with Hitler's shadow coming east against the sun, it began to look as if others besides Warren Magnuson might begin to think about Alaska...
...naval loss was staggering. The Admiralty admitted that altogether four cruisers and six destroyers had been sunk by enemy aviation. This was more than the Italians lost at the much-hailed Battle of Matapan (three cruisers, three destroyers). One of the lost cruisers was an anti-aircraft ship, one of the "bristling porcupines" which have so far treated hostile airplanes roughly and come off relatively well. Ironically 'this one was sunk not by bombs but by an infernal machine. The anti-aircraft cruiser and two of the other ships were sunk by steered torpedoes (TIME, Nov. 11, weird...
...little drugstore were four smuggled rolls of film. They were pictures taken aboard the Zamzam in the dawn of April 17 after the Nazi raider fired ten shells into her, pictures of the passengers abandoning ship, a picture of the raider (a commonplace looking merchantman refitted as an armed cruiser), pictures of the sinking Zamzam, pictures aboard the prison ship, pictures taken 33 days later as the prisoners caught sight of the Spanish and French coasts...