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...repair base, Seabees made her seaworthy enough to risk the 5,800-mile trip home. During that three-week voyage the sea sloshed in & out of the two holes in her, one 39 ft. across, the other 47. At a west coast shipyard engineers discovered that her keel was broken in two places...
...side, stagings had to be built for the divers and the workmen above water. Bulkheads of timber and concrete were set in place to divide the ship into compartments, permitting the use of controlled pumping. The plan was to roll the vessel upright, resting on the port bilge keel. By pumping and flooding, movement could be controlled and slowed to prevent a sudden lurch when the ship broke free...
...placid Puget Sound, the U.S.S. Casablanca, first of the 50 new small Kaiser aircraft carriers, triumphantly sped through its trial runs, just 236 days after the keel was laid...
...battleship Oklahoma, once virtually upside down, is within ten degrees of upside up, but she still squats in the harbor mud. The battleship Arizona went under on an even keel, but her bow is still out of sight, the remnant of her stern only a bit above water. The target ship Utah is still turtle-turned, her big broad bottom hot and bare beneath the sun. Within the three hulks rest the skeletons...
...normal" corn-hog ratio of 11-to-1 (i.e., 100 lb. of hogs is equal in price 11-to-1 bu. of corn) is just enough to keep hog production on an even keel. Today the ratio is about...