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Soviet dispatches hailed Lunin as a hero who had saved a valuable convoy, declared it would take several months to repair the Tirpitz. That was patently guesswork, because the Tirpitz, when last seen, was proceeding under her own steam. When hit, such warships can often close bulkheads and keep going. Her sister ship Bismarck sustained enormously greater damage before going down...
Estimates of the country's potentially effective labor force reached 71,700,000-except for Russia, the greatest pool of industrial manpower in the world. But to win its war the U.S. must shake society to its depths. How deep is still guesswork. The Wall Street Journal judicially and shockingly guessed...
...scholarships began with the following question: 'How many stars are there in the flag of the United States of America-the Star-Spangled Banner?' Two hundred and five students said three stars; 180 said ten; 132 said 24; two said 13; and one said 55; all was guesswork. . . . Later investigations revealed that only two boys have ever seen the American flag, and they saw it in an old newspaper...
...Ordnance Department, announced that a civilian plant was being tooled up for production of the new piece. The sky-prodder is a 4.7-in. caliber cannon that will hurl shells more than 40,000 feet up-more than seven and a half miles. The range is neither theoretical nor guesswork. An adaptation of an earlier gun, the 4.7 has already been thoroughly tested...
These shortages may be exaggerated, may not. Trouble was that assembly lines cannot be run by guesswork...