Word: dd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the case seemed routine to detectives from the West 100th Street station. They got her description for the routine form which the police call "DD-13." For the Missing Persons Bureau, which seeks 9,000 people a year, turns up 8,900 of them, alive or dead, before twelve months are out; and 80% come back by themselves, 50% within 48 hours...
...taking them only about three times as long to construct destroyers as it took Henry Kaiser's West Coast yards to slap together Liberty ships. One yard will build 21 destroyers this year-equivalent, says the Navy, to 105 Liberty ships. Prior to 1940, building time for a DD was 27-28 months. In 1942: eight months. Other samples of the speedup...