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...Roosevelt (who declined to smile for Father John and Grandfather Franklin). At Boston Navy Yard Mr. Roosevelt saw eight destroyers under construction. At the Watertown Arsenal there was the Army's new 90-mm. antiaircraft gun. He saw the torpedo station, Navy Training Station and War College at Newport, R. I., the new naval air base at Quonset Point, submarines at New London. Conn. All these he judged to be proof that U. S. Defense was well along, would be still further along by late fall...
...landlubbers, it looked like fair speed to those who knew the tough realities. New construction already clogged the ways at most of the Navy's own yards (Brooklyn, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Boston, Mare Island, Charleston, Philadelphia, Puget Sound). Few and busy were the private yards geared to produce warships (Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Bethlehem Steel, Bath Iron Works, Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Electric Boat Co.). Also at or near capacity were the only three private producers of naval armor plate (Bethlehem, U. S. Steel, Baldwin Locomotive's subsidiary Midvale...
...Comfort (where 3-inch anti-aircraft guns ripped the tail from a sleeve target being towed at 8,000 ft.). He stopped at Langley Field (where 6,000 men now work, where 100 warplanes demonstrated). He wound up an eight-hour day, and 100 miles of travel, at the Newport News shipbuilding yard, looked at the new battleship Indiana taking shape, pondered the 45%-finished aircraft carrier Hornet, looked at the two new ways, two new piers, the machine shop and turret shop that are now being built...
That same theory saw Presidential campaigning in defense inspection tours like the one to Newport News. Last week one political taboo was exorcised-from Washington popped a story that a New Deal spokesman had discussed the question with a representative of Wendell Willkie. The story: Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish got in touch with Russell Davenport of Wendell Willkie's staff, suggested that if Mr. Willkie would make no public criticism, President Roosevelt might request Congress to release aged U. S. destroyers that Britain needs...
...artists who make Manhattan the biggest U. S. art centre, those who can afford it, depart in summer to rural resorts from Maine to Virginia. Among their most favored summer art colonies are such New England towns as Silvermine, Lyme, Newport, Provincetown, Rockport. Typical is the little town of Mystic, Conn, (east of New London) which opened its 15th annual exhibition last week...