Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press was a new note of apprehension that the Navy was not attacking the U-boat problem with sufficiently imaginative vigor, despite the patrol planes, bombers, blimps and surface craft that are dumping bombs and depth charges wherever an enemy sub is suspected...
...confusion in the Navy's fleet-building program. But if Mr. Lippmann had pressed his inquiry he would have discovered that Navy production transcends anything dreamed of a year ago; that production records are being shattered as battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and the sorely needed escort ships and sub-chasers slide down the ways; that U.S. naval ' builders know a great deal about mass production; that ships are being mass-produced; that, in short, naval construction in the last five months has been phenomenal...
...Potrero del Llano (TIME, May 25). Then last week off Cuba the Axis bungled into torpedoing the 6,607-ton tanker Faja de Oro, which Mexico had grabbed from Italy last year, and whose commander openly boasted last month that he had rammed and sunk an Axis sub...
...material of the universe was a single clump of tight-packed sub-atomic particles-so tightly packed, in fact, that material equivalent to the present mass of the earth would barely have filled one of the present earth's good-sized gravel pits...
Kindelberger's blast made automen turn rage-red. WPB's auto chief, Ernie Kanzler, branded it "perfectly ridiculous." G.M.'s* Fisher Body division said that it has shipped a steady stream of sub-assemblies to North American for months. Murray Body is eleven weeks ahead of schedule on sub-assemblies for Douglas and Boeing. Cracked Chrysler Chief Kaufman Thuma Keller: "I think the auto industry will take care of itself." Big, burly Ford Production Boss Charles Sorensen remarked that automen had always looked upon the planemakers as "little custom tailors...