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...more valuable than the ancient battleships which rolled over or settled to the bottom .of the harbor. Said Admiral Thomas C. Hart: "No one should have given high valuation to such old and very slow capital ships." Said young Navy officers: "The Japs lifted the Navy from the 17-knot class to the 25-knot class...
...been the growth of the surface U.S. Navy in the year since Pearl Harbor. Besides the North Carolina and the Washington, commissioned in 1941, probably four new battleships, the South Dakota, Indiana, Massachusetts and Alabama, have joined the fleet by this time. The "biggest-ever" (45,000 tons), 30-knot Iowa was launched, in August, her sister ship New Jersey this week. These big, new, cruiser-fast battleships differ from the old Pearl Harbor ships as a Flying Fortress differs from a B18. Other signs of naval recovery...
...Everybody said it takes two weeks to train a new loom tender to tie a weaver's knot. Dooley and Dietz did not believe it. They went to a New England mill loaded with war orders and hard-pressed to find workers. The manager sent for the best loom-tender in the plant. He showed the visitors, with lightning movements of his hands, how a good man does it. Gradually they slowed him down to a speed the eye could follow, made him analyze what each finger does. Hours later they knew exactly what happens when the fingers...
...Gordian knot of manpower allocation is as tight as ever. President Roosevelt has sharpened the blade, but the actual cutting is yet to be done...
...asked if he'd had a hit. 'No, dammit,' he said, 'when we took off there was a twenty-knot wind blowing, but when I got over the Ryuzyo I figured it had dropped to fifteen knots, so I pushed over and dove, allowing for that much. Well, it had really dropped to only five knots, so I missed the Jap carrier by about twenty feet.' As you know, twenty feet is practically aboard and a hit from that close can do plenty of damage. So I guess it's safe...