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...York City's five boroughs produced aluminum pieces by the hundred thousands. Biggest: a two-ton duralumin gate (damaged) from the Triborough Bridge. One of the smallest: an aluminum girdle, previously worn by an electric eel at the Aquarium...
From Herbert Hoover (see p. 11) down to the smallest hater of Communism, far too many U.S. citizens reacted with an emotional belch. They apparently forgot two essential realities: 1) the Soviet Union, far from rising as a new danger, was fighting for its life; 2) the better fight it puts up, the more it weakens the power of Nazi Germany to destroy democracy throughout the world...
Even shipping lines are potshotting the Seaway. The Atlantic States Shippers Advisory Board claims: 1) only 5% of U.S. ships over 2,000 tons could use the Seaway; 2) only 30% of foreign ships over 2,000 tons could navigate it; 3) only the smallest U.S. Naval craft could...
...Navy's base at Portsmouth, N.H., three submarines appeared one morning last week for practice dives in the Atlantic. The O-8, the O-9, and the O10 belonged to a class of the smallest (480 tons), oldest (1918) Submarines in the Navy. Age wears submarines faster than any other class of naval vessels, and the eight O-boats would never have been recommissioned, after years of discard, unless World War II had made it absolutely necessary for the Navy to train new crews as fast as possible...
...measurements for every ten-thousandth of an inch from 1/10 of an inch to 12 inches, a complete set of block gauges would number well over 100,000 pieces. But he found that every one of these measurements could be obtained by a combination of only 81 pieces, the smallest being 1/10 of an inch, the largest four inches...