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Against these losses, the U.S. balanced its own and found the balance in its favor. Besides the Arizona it has lost a cruiser (Houston), seven destroyers, three submarines, a few auxiliary craft. Inferior in tonnage and gunpower when the war began, sure to be outbuilt from now on, the Japanese were losing at a rate they could ill afford. But it was still a rate the U.S. Navy must sharply increase before the Japanese Navy is crippled...
...design classes, boats must be identical not only in hull lines, sail area and rigging but even in the minutest detail of equipment. These classes are increasing in great numbers because: 1) one-design boats are cheaper; 2) their racing life is prolonged, since they cannot be outbuilt; 3) the boat is reduced to an instrument (like a tennis racket or golf club) for the display of individual skill...
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