Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the time he got his sub-cabinet appointment last May, he was up to his neck in Air Corps affairs. He led the job of wheedling manufacturers into forgetting company pride, building the other fellow's planes (e.g., Douglas builds Boeing bombers...
...were at sea, searching for subs. We had experienced fair luck for some days. Shortly after sunset last night, word came down to wardroom over bridge voice tube that contact had been made. We took station for depth-charge attack. . . . The sub was close aboard, less than 200 yards distant, on our starboard hand. The contact indicated a well-developed one, of the Nipponese variety (very popular with our ships). . . . The sub was sluggish in her movements-she maneuvered slowly, endeavoring to stay within our turning circle, and cross our wake. After a bit of maneuvering, we made our turn...
Back in the wardroom, we felt like a quiet celebration. It was our first sub of the day, and our first big one in some days. . . . Someone suggested a bridge game. We started it-our first in nearly three months. My partner, a young ensign from Chicago, maneuvered expertly until the bid was seven spades, doubled and redoubled. He laid down his hand-13 spades...
...time in personal investigation, Karl Doenitz' followers call him Chief Mussel Sniffer. One day two years before the war, dissatisfied with British Admiralty official reports on currents around the Portland naval base, he boarded U-37 and went to see for himself. The destroyer Wolfhound spotted the strange sub, dropped a couple of practice detonators, scared the German visitor to the surface. While Doenitz fumed in the torpedo room, the U-boat commander made proper apologies. Then the U-boat went home. Doenitz reportedly confided to a fellow officer that, on hearing the depth charges, he thought the "raving...
...rubber industry's war work is rubber. Biggest surprise is Firestone's $20,000,000 order for 40-mm. Bofors anti-aircraft gun mounts and carriages. Weeks ahead on this contract, Firestone is also turning out machine-gun clips, other metal war goods. Goodyear is making sub-assemblies for Martin bombers. Goodrich makes fuel tanks and operates a $35,000,000 ordnance plant in Texas. U.S. Rubber makes zippers ("Kwik") for uniforms and operates an $86,000,000 arms plant in Iowa...