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...were well over a hundred valuable Commando-fighters, sunk (according to German claims) were 13 British motor gunboats and torpedo ships. But the British were well satisfied. On their farthest Commando raid of the war, they had, they were confident, knocked out the only Atlantic port big enough to drydock the battleship Tirpitz, the dock that had once held the once-mighty Normandie, the busiest pen for Nazi subs. The raid was soothing to Britain's invasion boosters, too. To many of them it seemed that the British brass hats were at last realizing the vulnerability...
...Still in drydock as far as proven ability goes, the Varsity lacrosse team takes to the water on its maiden voyage next week when its ports of call on the annual spring trip are Penn, the University of Maryland, and Navy...
Moreover, from Barnes's candor at its most candid, it appeared that haste and Hitler were not the only villains of the piece. The ghost of NRA, he revealed, still stalks the ship repair yards. Because Todd competitor United Drydock (since bought by Bethlehem Steel) was in danger of going broke, the NRA code fixed all repair yard rates on the basis of daily wages paid, plus 35 or 40% overhead, plus machine rentals, plus 10% "profits." The arrival of war and a flood of Government work found this antique formula still in effect. As the yards filled, overhead...
...Important repair work on 17 U.S. and British ships was delayed when 6,000 C.I.O. workers at Robins Drydock and Repair Co., New York, quit work for three days. Reason: acetylene-torch burners would not work beside four non-union burners...
...week, as the 35,000-ton battleship Massachusetts, five destroyers and three minesweepers went down the ways. Two of the destroyers, the Hambleton and Rodman, launched in a twin ceremony at Kearny, N.J., were a month behind schedule. Reason: the shipbuilders' strike that finally forced Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. to turn over its property to the Navy...