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...U.S.S.R. openly accused a Japanese submarine of torpedoing the 4,761-ton Russian freighter Angarstroi, which sank 32 miles off the Japanese coast...
...high with an exploding freighter off a Virginia beach last week went the optimism of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. The Secretary had assured the U.S. that the U-boat menace had been thrust back 50 miles from the Eastern Seaboard...
Late one afternoon bathers, startled by the explosion, saw smoke pouring from the freighter close to shore. They saw U.S. subchasers, planes and blimps scattering bombs and depth charges. Then a second freighter shuddered from an explosion...
Biggest reason for this surprise stockpile is that many a freighter hauling men & munitions to Australia comes back cargo-full of wool. Wool supplies available this year are now estimated at 1,100,000,000 lb.-twice a normal year's consumption. But even this mountain of wool may not be enough: some of it is earmarked for Lend-Lease, and outfitting a new soldier takes about 200 lb. of wool, whereas civilians usually get along on five...
...previous shipbuilding records went by the boards this week when Henry J. Kaiser's amazing Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. delivered a 10,000-ton Liberty freighter to the Maritime Commission only 48 days after the keel was laid...