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Aside from the ill omen which sailormen believe follows changing a warship's name, interest centred on the "bigger" Deutschland, which must be one of the four 35,000-ton (perhaps 40,000) battleships which Germany is feverishly putting together. Two of these ships, launched last February and April, were christened Bismarck and Tirpitz. A third, on the ways at Kiel, must now be ready to take the water or already has.* Perhaps all three will be ready for action early next autumn. What will that do to the balance of sea power in World...
...want to see relations established between this Government and any religious body, and it will hold Mr. Roosevelt responsible for having tried to do this under the nearly sacrosanct cover of a campaign for peace. . . . In every respect . . . the dispatch of Mr. Taylor to the Vatican is of ill omen to the neutrality and religious freedom...
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Antarctic explorer, seems to thrive on trouble, and if he got off on an expedition without something going wrong he might regard it as an ill omen. This month the Admiral starts his third trip to the Antarctic, partly backed by U. S. Treasury funds, to clinch the claims of the U. S. to some 450,000 ice-covered square miles. Last week enough mishaps befell his huge new "snow cruiser" to convince him that everything was going to be all right...
...users of strip mill products until October. Meanwhile, Bethlehem's 60.4% operating rate is supported by an order backlog-including steel orders for fourth-quarter automobiles of only $184,921,081 (compared to a backlog of $192,040,906 and production at 53.8% three months before), no good omen for fourth-quarter production...
Building. Another grave omen for steel production (15% consumed by building) was the fact that last week, engineering construction awards fell 4% below the preceding week, 13% below the (high) corresponding week last year. The big difference was due to the sharp drop in non-Governmental contracts, down 30% from last year. In residential building, F. W. Dodge reported awards for first 22 days of July at the rate of $112-to-$115,000,000 for the month, barely up from June's disappointing $111,000,000, off substantially from...