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...total tonnage: 300,000. Twenty of the Italian ships, it was found, had been "put completely out of action." Rods and shafts had been cut with acetylene torches, engines and equipment wrecked with sledge hammers, bearings chiseled, bulwarks pried down with crowbars, boilers burned out, movable equipment dismantled. At Norfolk the blue-jacketed guardsmen caught one Italian in the act of sabotage. (On the same Port Everglades pier as the Potomac, guardsmen boarded the German freighter Arauca shortly after the President, tanned and refreshed, left for Washington...
...standardized 7,500-ton freighters, under President Roosevelt's new 200 emergency ship program, yards were under construction at Houston, New Orleans and Wilmington, N. C. At Mobile, Ala., new Gulf Shipbuilding Co. yards were working on their first contract (four cargo ships worth about $12,000,000). Norfolk, Va. had a newcomer in Welding Shipyards, Inc. (starting off with a $4,000,000 tanker...
...Southern Railway streamliner, to begin operating this spring from Memphis to Washington, will be steam instead of Diesel drawn between Lynchburg and Bristol, Va. Reason: between those points it will use the right of way of Norfolk & Western, which gets 80% of its freight business from hauling coal and refuses to allow a Diesel on its tracks...
...convoy of destroyers slipping along beside her. Five hundred miles off the coast the convoy was dropped; the battleship sailed on alone. At 6:16 on a grey, cold morning, ship watchers at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay reported tersely: ''British warship, King George V class, off Norfolk waters."* Through a morning mist the battleship swung northwest, past the mouth of the Potomac, the inlets of Maryland's Eastern Shore, to drop anchor, invisible in the rain and fog, five miles from the Naval Academy at Annapolis. If Lord and Lady Halifax were waiting for a first...
Tenors Willie Langford and Henry Owen, Baritone Willie Johnson and Basso Orlandus Wilson began singing together in Norfolk, Va.'s Booker T. Washington High School, got on local radio programs even before they graduated in 1935. They had already been on records (Bluebird) and the radio before they were discovered, barnstorming the South, by crew-cropped Jazz Pundit John Hammond. He presented them to Manhattan more than a year ago, and Café Society shortly signed them. Tenor Clyde Riddick took Willie Langford's place in the quartet...