Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scene of Action. Naval experts have long faced the fact that it is unsafe for a fleet to fight too far from its base, for unless ships can get back to their docks and repair shops, in case of damage, they are at the mercy of enemy submarines and air raiders. The naval rule of thumb for a safe operating radius for a fleet is 2,500 miles from its base. The only fleet operating base of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific is at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Only sketchy facilities for planes and light craft exist at other...
Meanwhile, the U. S. Fleet, now based at Pearl Harbor, would have a chance to act. Convoying tankers, tenders, cargo and repair ships, it could head west to the Orient. Once out of Pearl Harbor the Navy would have to rely on its floating shops and tenders, until it got within range of Singapore. This would involve some risks, but they are risks that most Navy men consider worth while, for under such circumstances they count on winning any major engagement in the neighborhood of the Philippines...
...Four years after the London Conference, after Mr. Roosevelt was inaugurated a second time . . . there were two things that the United States should have done. First, we should have assured the domestic recovery that the democratic world was waiting for. And secondly, we should have taken immediate steps to repair the damage in 1933 at the London economic conference. We should have adopted a vigorous policy for the promotion of trade and commerce. We should have set about creating a strong and prosperous era of peace...
...Navy's order for 201 ships (the 201st being a repair vessel) will call for 732,000 tons in the next few years. Another 73,000 tons is now on order for Maritime Commission vessels...
...industry is notoriously unstable. Whenever it approaches peak operations, blows in its last 10% of becob-webbed furnaces, farsighted businessmen begin to expect sudden collapse. Last week steel was flying all the danger signals. Some companies were feverishly running furnaces that could use relining, fearful that time out for repair would lose them business. Deferring repairs is steelmen's standard practice in a boom, the theory being that steel booms rarely last long enough to cause serious breakdowns...