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...Newsman Crockett scored his first big beat: in a small lobster boat he sailed 15 rough miles out in the Atlantic, to get the first details of the sinking of the submarine Squalus off Portsmouth...
...production was battered and hurt. But it was not crippled; the time and losses would be made up. One good result of the flood was a testing of the Civilian Defense forces. From Pittsburgh to Portsmouth along the Ohio, calls brought out 100,000 people, many of whom stayed on duty 36 hours. Food centers, patrol activities, traffic routing all went smoothly in their hands. Private armies of autos and trucks reacted a thousand miniature versions of the taxicab Battle of the Marne, going wherever they were most needed. Against nature civilian defense had proved it could and would serve...
Fourteen days from keel laying to delivery date is indeed a record of which American shipbuilders can well be proud. This seems a far advance from the 47 years required to construct the U.S.S. Alabama. Originally intended as a storeship, her keel was laid at Portsmouth, Va. Navy Yard in 1817 but not until April 23, 1864 was she launched. A record of 47 years under construction...
...neglect to point out an interesting sidelight: what became of Bubbles as opposed to Bubbles. If I am not mistaken, Bubbles also became famous and is today Admiral [Sir William Milburne] James, Royal Navy, Commander in Chief, Portsmouth. In any case I know that the admiral is known to most of the men in "Pompey" Barracks as "Bubbles...
...Portsmouth, Hants...