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...Torpedo on the Track. Savings in fuel and grease meant bonuses, and engineers were constantly chancing runs on nearly greaseless bearings. Keeping the creaky engines in trim meant long hours of extra work for the drivers, but a breakdown was never blamed on faulty equipment. It was always labeled negligence or sabotage. Fearful of punishment and goaded by high wages (up to 1,250 forints-about $100-a month), the engineers did what they could, but accidents were frequent, timetables seldom kept. Engineers who complained, disappeared...
...night, the engineer who talked in Munich last week was at the throttle, driving a train of tank cars for Russia through a thick fog after 18 straight hours on the job. At last he dozed off. An alert switchman dropped a warning torpedo underneath his wheels in time to avoid a collision, but the young engineer was promptly arrested for sabotage. This is the rest of the story as he told...
...year later, crossing the Atlantic in the battleship Iowa on the way to Teheran, King and the President were nearly blown up when a destroyer accidentally loosed a live torpedo. "King wished to relieve the commanding officer of the destroyer at once," writes King, "but, to his great amazement, the President told him to forget it. Consequently, no steps were taken." In King's report of Roosevelt's death, there is no word of sorrow or compassion. He complains: "There was such a press of mourners that the Joint Chiefs could not even see the grave...
From a 21-gun presidential salute to a double sundae at the Oriskany's ice-cream bar, the U.S. Navy gave Getulio the works. While he lolled in the captain's bridge chair, a dozen Banshee jets and 14 TBM3 torpedo bombers were catapulted off. The President ducked behind the bridge windscreen as the planes buzzed low over the carrier, and craned his neck as they skimmed over Copacabana beach. After watching the jets deliver rocket attacks on a towed target, he hastily stuffed cotton in his ears as the ships' antiaircraft guns opened...
...Torpedo Ship." At the outbreak of World War II, Manning was skipper of the Washington, carrying refugees from Europe. So many children were aboard that the ship was nicknamed "S.S. Diaper." At dawn, one morning in 1940, off the coast of Portugal, a German U-boat surfaced and blinked out a terrifying message: "STOP SHIP. EASE TO SHIP. TORPEDO SHIP." Manning ordered his 1590 passengers to the lifeboats, Then, for ten tense minutes, as the sub repeatedly flashed "ABANDON SHIP," Manning stubbornly replied: "AMERICAN SHIP." Finally, in the agonizing quiet, the submarine signaled: "THOUGHT YOU WERE ANOTHER SHIP. PLEASE...