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...Liberties are still being finished at East Coast yards. But no more keels will be laid, East or West. Already Richmond No. 2, and most of the other yards, are building the faster Victory ship (15 knots) and a shoal of Navy craft, C-4 troop transports, LSTs, frigates. But the feverish shipbuilding in which Richmond No. 2 built a Liberty in seven days is ended...
Bedford Village was the last outpost of the frontier. Two thousand settlers crowded under the walls of its fort. Around the village in every direction "stretched the illimitable forest," murder-haunted and mysterious, and green as shoal water, through which the Indians glided like sharks through reefs. Most of the action in the novel results from Indian troubles intensified by the French-British wars in Europe, the fact that the Bedford garrison was mutinous, and that the Quaker legislature in Philadelphia would not appropriate funds to fight the redskins...
Backing up these types the U.S. has many others in service, including Consolidated and Martin flying boats and a shoal of assorted models which were on hand and could be used. It has many another model on the way, to which airline operators with an eye to postwar aviation look with fond eyes...
Even the military effort has suffered. Typical of Congressional subservience to private enterprise was the vote of March 27th in which Representatives refused appropriations for development of the Table Rock and Bull Shoal power projects in Missouri-projects fully supported by the Army and Navy Munitions Boards and every other war agency. The Seventy-seventh Congress has failed us in our war effort. It is up to the people to see that the Seventy-eighth is of different make. For the number of dead-duck obstructionists bagged by the season's windup in November will unfailingly determine the future success...
More highly specialized than either of these layers was Army Intelligence. It operated through a shoal of spies disguised as petty merchants (like Major Hara of Vigan), cafe proprietors, medicine-store operators. It was financed by the Japanese Tourist Bureau...