Word: torpedos
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...only Allied ships that settled, torpedo-riddled, to the muddy floors of the world's seaways...
...Lawrence Ottinger, president of U.S. Plywood Corp., told stockholders that their company's "products had found their way into so many war uses that the company could not supply more than a fraction of the demand, despite substantial increases in production facilities." A few production uses are: gliders, torpedo boats, mine sweepers, cargo vessels, army landing boats, defense housing, pipe, chemical vats, shipping containers...
Considering this fact, citizens who read about the 4,500,000 man-days in her making and the 1,100 miles of blueprint paper in her plans might remember torpedo planes, wonder whether it would not have been more practical to finish Passamaquoddy after all. They had all heard that the plane had made the dreadnought an anachronism, that the carrier was king, that the U.S. had already abandoned or postponed five projected 58,000-ton super-super-battleships. Would the Iowa spend the war ignominiously tied to a dock? Almost certainly...
Longest ashore was the Montreal Standard's Wallace Reyburn, who had six and a half hours of it, finally had to swim off to a torpedo boat. Collier's Quentin Reynolds saw the battle from a destroyer, flagship of the raiding fleet, Associated Press's Drew Middleton from a 100-foot launch. Other U.S. correspondents: National Broadcasting's John McVane, the New York Sun's Gault MacGowan. MacGowan, a veteran roving reporter and soldier of fortune, had the unluckiest tale, got it through to the Sun, a day late, only after a long struggle with...
Then came the onslaught: submarine packs, torpedo boats, dive-bombers, torpedo-carrying planes. Details of the action were not revealed, but hour after hour, for several days, in the air, on the surface, undersea, the melee raged...