Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra-curricular activity at Yale will undergo drastic changes and reductions for the duration of the war, the Yale News reports. The revamping, to take effect this summer, was announced by the University after plans submitted by the undergraduate organizations had been approved by a special sub-committee of the Corporation's Committee on Educational Policy...
Hoping to sight a sub (and sink same) in the Windward Passage, Ensign Pinter did not want to jettison his bombs. But on the take-off he was sorely tempted to let them go. Said his report last week...
...another sinking ship the gun crew kept blazing away at the sub, shattered the U-boat's periscope before a second torpedo finished off the U.S. vessel. > Somewhere along the Brazilian bulge, a heavily armed Norwegian ship tangled with a U-boat, blew it to bits. > The Hartford Courant reported that marine claims filed against insurance companies for U.S. ships lost since Jan. i were $48,000,000; lost cargo claims were $25,000,000; total $73,000,000. This was $17,000,000 more than the premiums paid, almost completely wiped out all marine-insurance profits...
Reason for this sudden interest in subs was the realization that, apart from the airplane, the 1942-model sub is the best U.S. bet for an offensive weapon. Weighing over 1,500 tons and 300-plus feet long, it shoots torpedoes fore & aft, carries quick-firing cannon and anti-aircraft guns, is fast enough to keep up with any fleet. It can cruise on its own for months, with a radius of 20,000 miles. From any angle the sub looked like the best way to clip the tensing strings of Japan's supply lines...
...comparatively small corporation near New London promptly became one of the most important firms in the U.S. The Electric Boat Co., on the Thames River at Groton, Conn., has almost a monopoly of U.S. sub-building know-how. Only other U.S. sub-builders are two Navy yards (Portsmouth, N.H. and Mare Island, Calif.) and a new private venture at Manitowoc, Wis. Even the Manitowoc yard is staffed and supervised (not owned) by Electric Boat Co., and its product is Ebco-guaranteed. All three rival yards combined have fewer ways, less equipment than Ebco. Ebco got started in 1899 when...