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Last fortnight one of the oldest and fattest of these private handicrafters came before the public: Warner & Swasey of Cleveland, which has been dubbed "Tiffany of turret lathes," filed a registration statement with SEC, planned to offer (through Smith, Barney & Co.) 276,580 shares of common stock for sale. Now owned by a handful of Warners, Swaseys and old employes, the stock will probably be offered at less than $30 a share. Only about $1,000,000 of the $8,000,000 or so realized will go to Warner & Swasey...
...warplanes demonstrated). He wound up an eight-hour day, and 100 miles of travel, at the Newport News shipbuilding yard, looked at the new battleship Indiana taking shape, pondered the 45%-finished aircraft carrier Hornet, looked at the two new ways, two new piers, the machine shop and turret shop that are now being built...
...bomb of best design is 700 ft. sec. That is about half the striking speed of a 12-inch armor-piercing coast guard rifle shell at close range. But air bombs are not armor-piercing. They explode on contact. To reach a Queen Elizabeth magazine from between the forward turrets (extremely lucky hit), a bomb would have to penetrate one unarmored deck, one 2-inch armor deck, another 1¼-inch armor deck, another 1-inch armor deck, and then the magazine's 9-inch armor ceiling-a total of 13¼ inches of armor. But the bomb would...
Highest high jinks: Charles Laughton having himself a wonderful time in the turret of Notre Dame, playing the bells with his feet, swinging apelike from the bell ropes, dropping building blocks and raining a vast cauldron of molten lead through gargoyles' mouths down on his fellow citizens in the square below...
What Jimmy Bowen watched through his glasses and told about, flash by flash, for the next 13 minutes filled everyone's front pages next day-"The ship is moving now, rolling from side to side. There goes another explosion! The after turret has gone up. . . . She is going down, going down by the stern. . . . Flames are still shooting up into the air. . . . The boys evidently are going to make a good job of it, and leave nothing but the pieces. . . . She is going down still. The bow is under. . . . The only thing showing now is her superstructure, the stack...