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...longer a $200,000,000 Presidential pump-priming scheme. With its boondoggling finery removed, the great dead ditch was now a $44,000,000 barge canal with a wartime-living excuse: to mitigate the East Coast oil shortage. But it raised the same old political ruckus-and the pros & cons were still dead white and coal black...
...Said the pros: the canal could be built in only ten months, would cost no more than $44,000,000, would take almost no scarce materials. Said the cons: the canal would take some three years to finish, would cost much more than its proponents figured, would chew up from two to three times as much critical material and twelve times the operating manpower that northern pipelines would take. The Citizens Emergency Committee for Eastern Transportation Relief came out for the ditch. The Citizens Emergency Committee on Non-Defense Expenditures came out against it. Plain citizens were confused, as usual...
...before, Henry Kaiser had laid on the White House desk the plans for wholesale merchantman-into-carrier conversion. Many an old-fashioned Navy man frowned: slow, small carriers (flight deck: 514 ft.) tote few planes, often must catapult them when there is no strong wind to help. And the pros felt no certainty that the small flat tops, even in droves, would be the answer to the U-boat...
...sixth still consists of the thin sprinkling of pros from the Regular Army (14,659 officers in 1938) and a wartime addition of specialists appointed from civilian life to Engineers, Ordnance, Signal Corps, and other technical branches...
...Among the missing were four of the tour's annual headliners: Ben Hogan, leading low-scorer the past three years (now a civilian aviation student); Byron Nelson, always close on his heels (denied his plane transportation from Texas at the last moment); Sam Snead, most idolized of U.S. pros (now a third-class seaman in the Navy); and Craig Wood, National Open champion (now a captain in the Marines...