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When the Western Allies stumbled upon him right after V-E Day, Konrad Adenauer was just an old man in a high, starched collar, stern and vigorous and proud, already well into the twilight of his life. In his three-score-and-ten, his homeland had soared and sunk through two great historical phases and entered a third. Two of these phases Konrad Adenauer had lived out in a routine of efficient ordinariness and relative obscurity. He was born (Jan. 5, 1876) in the age of Bismarck; he was already 42 when the Kaiser fell. Through the sad days...
...beaches, the small boys performed their man-sized jobs. In desperation, fleets of Kamikazes plunged out of the sky, their suicidal pilots aiming their bomb loads at the destroyers. A barrage of fire stopped most, but not all. By the time the shooting stopped, 13 U.S. destroyers had been sunk, 118 destroyers and destroyer-escorts damaged. But the picket fence had held. It was the greatest destroyer action in history...
...improved use of radar, coordination of air and surface weapons) and the firm policy of destroyer-escorted convoys. Soon, hunter-killer teams of destroyers, destroyer-escorts and carrier-based aircraft had turned the tables on the U-boat wolf packs. By 1945, two U-boats were being sunk for every torpedoed Allied ship. Destroyers were an indispensable factor in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, an indispensable condition to the Allied landing in Europe. Their laconic action reports sometimes suggested the grim human drama they played on the high seas: "Debris in area of attack included cork slabs, wood, diesel...
...about 514 destroyers and 414 destroyer-escorts had seen duty, and 82 of them had been sunk. No statistician will ever be able to calculate all they accomplished...
...consistently made money except for two depression and two World War II years when seven of her freighters were sunk. Since 1946. SAL has paid annual dividends of 15%, and last year tossed in a 25% stock bonus. As an unsubsidized line, SAL does not have to buy in Sweden if prices are less elsewhere. The Kungsholm was built in Holland of German steel, uses Danish diesels and U.S. air conditioning...