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...people demanded a pay-as-you-go tax. So did a majority of Congressmen. But action was tied up in a Gordian knot...
...tied the knot with his own ham-sized hands was North Carolina's stubborn old Congressman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee. He and his committee stalwarts, their own bill repudiated, now refused to work out a compromise plan...
Faster Means Fewer. Britain's War Transport Minister Lord Leathers explained last week why the idea of concentrating exclusively on fast ships had been discarded: "Faster ships mean fewer ships. To build a 15-knot vessel takes half as long again as an 11-knot vessel of the same carrying capacity, and the faster ship requires 50% more labor and material." To increase speed by one-third, power must be trebled...
...average 55 days it now takes to slap together an old-style Liberty ship (though once in production shipyards may snap back to present building time). And it will take much larger and more powerful reciprocating engines to push a Liberty's speed up from the present 10 knots to 15. Besides, even 15 knots is no match for the 21-knot surface speed of some of the newer submarines...
What to Do? Bad in war, this indictment of the Liberty also spells out an unhappy picture for the peace. Yet no easy solution is in sight. The Maritime Commission would like to build more 18-knot C-type freighters. But there are two compelling reasons for sticking to the Liberty program: 1) the Liberty is far easier to build, and as Henry Kaiser and many another shipbuilder has shown, can be mass-produced; 2) the Liberty takes an old-fashioned reciprocating engine, easier and quicker to produce than the delicate high-speed turbines that must go into destroyers...