Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civic beefing-fests and sub-contracting-klatches caused by the fact and fear of priorities unemployment, one in Toledo last week gave the most hope of results. Toledoans were sore. They had sent Washington an ultimatum: come to the meeting and do some explaining, or stay away and be blasted. Washington came. Even the Army was there, and even the Army made some commitments...
Despite his calm reception of the news, Colonel Phinizy was later heard to mutter into a glass of "Mah Confederate ancestry calls but within me sub Ab prefer mah Sheridans twenty miles away...
...coaches confab out in Texas, Harlow and Snavely got together over the wire the other evening and drew out an agreement--a gentleman's agreement. It had to do with the new substitution rule and each one agreed that he would not take advantage of the new "free-sub" decision to pull off one of the old sleeper plays...
Before that summer was over, the U-boats had sunk 100 ships (200,000 tons) by gun, bombs, mine and torpedo. Cruising within sight of the lights of Staten Island, one sub hove to on three different nights and cut transatlantic and Central American telegraph cables. The Germans mined the mouths of the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, laid other fields off Barnegat and Long Island. One of the mines smashed a hole in the battleship Minnesota, which limped into port, was laid up for the duration. Another mine sank the U.S. cruiser San Diego a few miles off Long Island...
...clear weather, the eight-man crew of a modern blimp once spotted a submarine 90 feet below the surface. Crews from Lakehurst daily practice following sharks and whales, occasionally give them a practice bomb. Other blimp virtues: they can stay in the air about 50 hours, can follow a sub without having to circle, as an airplane must, can fly below the ceiling in all but the worst kind of weather. In patrols and practice with surface ships off the coast, Lakehurst's men daily demonstrate these capabilities...