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...were attacked by six German fighters. After shooting down two Germans, their plane, radio dead, was forced into the sea. They spent the next 16 days on a rubber life raft, stretching out five days' emergency rations by mixing canned milk and water together. Finally they saw a vessel, a U.S. ship which was part of a convoy. The boy with the empty pipe said he jerked a thumb at the boat's crew, asked ''Ride, buddy?" The crew, he said, grinned, and said, "Sure...
...from 8,400,000 tons to 13,200,000 tons. Plate has been and still is the worst bottleneck in the industry, for nearly 75% of the steel needed for ships is plate. > But many a layman overestimates the amount of steel needed in shipbuilding. A 10,000-ton vessel actually weighs about 4,000 tons—the 10,000-ton figure is its carrying capacity. The 8,000,000 tons of merchant shipping the U.S. hopes to build this year will take up less than 3,500,000 tons of ingot capacity...
...passenger-jammed harbor ferry, periscope and conning tower in plain sight. Depth charges jarred the Sydney waterfront. A communique from General MacArthur's headquarters announced that all three of the midgets had been destroyed, that Allied losses were limited to the damaging of one insignificant harbor vessel...
...that the Luftwaffe had sunk a U.S. cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking of a 2,000-ton merchant vessel and an icebreaker in a Spitsbergen fjord...
...both molasses and grains can be speeded up 1,000%, announced four scientists of the Seagram distilleries of Louisville, Ky. Molasses is now fermented in batches in 50 hours, but the Seagram chemists have devised a continuous five-hour cycle in which fresh molasses enters a single fermentation vessel while fermented material is constantly withdrawn at the other end. But pilot-plant operations must be studied before this laboratory technique is adopted by distilleries...