Word: dieselization
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...them to blast open their hides. They can crash dive in seconds, submerge to 100 fathoms (600 ft.), resist with safety the pressure of more than 19 tons per square foot. On the surface they can shoulder through the sea at 20 knots, driven by great 2,800-h.p. diesel engines. On their bows is a quick-firing gun big enough to enable them to engage Allied corvettes in surface action. U-boat production is at the rate of 20 to 30 a month. Hitler should have a fleet of 500-700 or more by spring, and the rate...
...boat part. Last week R.A.F. bombers, in their 112th raid on Cologne, made the heaviest attack since May 30, when 5,000 acres and 250 factories were ruined. Last week's raid was timed to flatten Cologne's burgeoning reconstruction, level factories just resuming the production of diesel engines and U-boat batteries. The British dropped 100 two-ton bombs...
...originally planned to equip destroyer escorts with steam turbines just like destroyers. But these turbines require hard-to-get herringbone reduction gears made by firms like De Laval Steam Turbine Co., Milwaukee's Falk Co. and the Farrel-Birmingham Co. Hence a switch was made to turbo and diesel electric drives. But this has run into a shortage of diesel engines and electrical equipment...
...Normandie, and Frederick B. Woodworth, Smith-Meeker Engineering Co.'s radio chief): a covey of small (2,000-ton) cigar-shaped concrete ships, lying low in the water with about a foot of freeboard. The ships are to be without superstructure, without crews, self-powered by diesel engines, controlled by radio from a single armed mother ship (corvette or destroyer). Advantages: the ships would be tricky targets, almost invisible to a submarine or from any distance at sea; loss of a ship would be small loss, cost no lives; construction is fast, cheap, would involve small amounts of critical...
...Crowley pointed out, his patent grabs mean that "some of the finest research achievements of modern science" will be available to any interested U.S. manufacturer. His plums include: Krupp patents on heavy machinery, diesel engines, locomotives and metal alloys; I. G. Farbenindustrie's work on oil and coal products, aluminum and magnesium fabricating, etc.; Focke-Wulf and Dornier aircraft improvements. But for the long pull, the significant part of Leo Crowley's letter to the President was the outline he made of his patent policy. It was a patent reformer's dream...