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Nevertheless, said Mr. Churchill, the war at sea constitutes a "repulsive and somber panorama." Shipping losses must be reduced by the production of more escort vessels, even if production of merchantmen has to be decreased. Said the Prime Minister: "The more sinkings are reduced, the more vehement our Anglo-American war efforts can be. ... The greater the weight we can take off Russia and how quickly the war will end all depend upon the margin of new building and forging ahead over losses which are, although improving, still lamentable and . . . grievous...
...Moulin Rouge spectator, in conventional garb leaving the cabaret, dancing a pas seul with her skirts flung high to reveal legs of startling thinness. Lautrec's most famous poster, Le Divan Japonais, featured Avril with her flaming red hair under a large black bonnet, listening with a toppered escort to a song by the disease, Yvette Guilbert...
...Liberty is far easier to build, and as Henry Kaiser and many another shipbuilder has shown, can be mass-produced; 2) the Liberty takes an old-fashioned reciprocating engine, easier and quicker to produce than the delicate high-speed turbines that must go into destroyers and some escort vessels. Geared turbines are at the moment more precious to the U.S. Navy than diamonds...
...husband was classified in 1-A and, of course, was called . . . . All our friends are married . . . and kept asking this one man to be my escort [at parties ]. . . . I did not mind his company . . . . Now I yearn for it . . . . I am beside myself . . . . We are both in love, What...
...tough realism, urged Nelson into checking Eberstadt's growing power. Finally came the current explosion, partly inevitable, partly the result of clashing authorities over which no one could or would assume a firm control. The explosives: the shortage of vital component parts needed in the Navy's escort program, the Army's high-octane gasoline program, and Bill Jeffers' rubber program...