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...that the problem of estimating the sugar supply is not mathematical. It is military. For more than two-thirds of the U.S. sugar supply comes from offshore, and it takes precious ships to bring it in. The present plight of the East Coast, in fact, is thanks to U-boat activity in the Atlantic and Caribbean. The Japs, in occupying the Philippines, cut off about 900,000 tons a year for the U.S. Besides, the Jap's conquest of the Indies closed the last big source of sugar for Britain and probably for Russia (which lost two-thirds...
...second U.S. destroyer named for the Commodore Jacob Jones who captured the British brig Frolic in the War of 1812. Her predecessor was the only U.S. destroyer lost to enemy action in World War I: in the winter of 1917 she was torpedoed 400 miles out of Brest by U-boat Commander Hans Rose, who hit her at 3,000 yards, the longest successful torpedo shot on record. The Navy, which does not believe in ill omens, will no doubt soon launch a sleek, new Jacob Jones III, and before the shakedown cruise is over the crew will call...
...thirst in lifeboats, of burned, screaming men, of heroic attempts to save crazed, suffering men from leaping to their death. When two tankers were attacked and burned off New Jersey and Florida, there were only three survivors from crews of 79. At week's end the Axis U-boat campaign in U.S. coastal waters had destroyed at least 27 ships, of which 17 were tankers...
Seamen, dead and alive, in lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard...
...German submarine shelled the Island of Aruba for the second time but failed to damage the world's largest oil refinery. The U-boat was believed to have been sunk by bombers which sped to the attack...