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...U.S.S. Iowa, first of a class of six, went down the ways at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the heaviest* hull ever set afloat. When complete, she will weigh about 45,000 tons (52,000 with full load). To launch her 45 tons of grease were needed and she slid down into the water on four sets of ways...
...heaviest hitting games of the summer softball schedule, a third-place Eliot team steam-rollered Adams, 17-3, sending the Gold-Coasters into a deadlock for the cellar. Also in yesterday's softball wars, the league-leading Lowell Bellboys slipped a notch nearer second-place Dunster when Winthrop trounced them...
This did not mean that the U-boat had been licked, even in the area where U.S. convoys were heaviest. Many a ship, unconvoyed, had been sunk in the same period. The U-boats had shied away, but they might return at any time. The convoy system was reaching southward through the Caribbean toward the South Atlantic, but in those areas and in the mid-Atlantic, sinkings of unconvoyed ships were still high. Moreover, convoying at best achieves a Pyrrhic advantage: convoys sacrifice efficiency for safety. The ships make fewer and slower trips, lose time at each end of their...
...Government buying is heaviest in ham, corned beef and other cured meats. The public will have to learn to eat more fresh pork and like it. Curing facilities are limited, so there will be a glut of fresh-killed pigs when the fall crop of shotes comes to market in October...
...heaviest initial blow had fallen on Timoshenko's central and southern wings in the Volchansk-Voroshilovgrad region. Badly smashed up, the Russians had retreated, opening the way for Bock's first big advance of the year...