Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berg was more than adequate for the Crimson limiting the home team to eight hits and striking out six over the thirteen innings. At the plate Bill Barnes, Thayer Drake, and Paul Delahoyde each collected a pair of hits for the losers, including Barnes' triple and Delahoyde's double. Reputed sluggers like Ned Fitzgibbons and Captain Bart Harvey failed to find the ball...
...most pleasant surprises of the afternoon was the work of Sophomore Jim Gallagher at third base and at the plate. Not only did he inaugurate his Varsity career with a satisfactory performance in the field but totaled three singles. Vin Leahy, who- started in right field, was the only other non-regular to get in the ball game...
Paul Delahoyde will start behind the plate and Sophomores Hoss Hamlen and Bill Barron are sure to see action. Control specialist Warren Berg will start on the mound with Bill Hoftyzer ready to relieve him. The outfield seems likely to be veteran Bill Barnes in right, and Sophomores Jim Apthorp and Vin Leahy
...schooners will be built of wood, so they will not compete with Liberty ships for steel plate. They will be built with local labor whose skills have been handed down from generation to generation, and they will be manned with Caribbean crews. Almost the only demand they will make on U.S. production will be for auxiliary diesel engines. These are already being assembled at New Orleans...
...Strip mills designed to make sheets ⅛ thick for Detroit have been converted to make 1¼-in. plate. This has upped plate capacity by more than half, from 8,400,000 tons to 13,200,000 tons. Plate has been and still is the worst bottleneck in the industry, for nearly 75% of the steel needed for ships is plate. > But many a layman overestimates the amount of steel needed in shipbuilding. A 10,000-ton vessel actually weighs about 4,000 tons—the 10,000-ton figure is its carrying capacity. The 8,000,000 tons of merchant...