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...told cook to make rice pud. Late in day rice floating on galley floor he put about ½ a stone of rice in boiling water nice...
...destroyer's own depth charges. Four men tried to launch a lifeboat, but it was no use: the explosions had wrecked the davits. Realizing that they would have to drop life rafts and jump after them into the numbing black water, the four sailors went to the galley and gulped hot coffee from soup ladles. From the store room they got heavy underwear and put on three suits apiece under their life jackets. Then they went overside...
...fears: 1) Hawaii and the Philippines, which should have contributed some 2,000,000 tons of raw sugar to the U.S. this year, may not be able to supply any; 2) vastly increased needs for alcohol for smokeless powder (see p. 66) may throw all the supply figures galley west; 3) nobody knows how much sugar the U.S. may have to Lend-Lease to Britain, the U.S.S.R., other allies. But the Commodity Research Bureau last week estimated minimum raw-sugar supplies for 1942 of 4,575,000 short tons, not counting any at all from Hawaii or the Philippines. This...
...trouble and solving problems without creating unnecessary ill feeling: One day a troublesome sailor, who hated the cook seemingly for no other reason than the cook was a Greek, swept into the captain's office and wanted to know how much it would cost to bust up the galley. Much to the troublemaker's amazement, the "Old Man" sat down and seriously began quoting various prices, tried to show the bargain value of some of them. The sailor left for his room back aft in a fog and forgot the whole thing while the captain still sat around...
...with duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...