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Most serious bottleneck was among subcontractors. Many hulls slid down the ways, then waited months for subcontractors to deliver propulsion machinery, ventilating & electrical equipment, pumps, the dozen-and-one other vital innards of a modern cargo vessel. The supply of steel had West Coast builders worried, too. Said a spokesman for the Kaiser yard: "They don't realize back East how much we need that steel. They don't realize how fast we can turn out ships in Portland...
Survivors of a sunken U.S. tanker told of a submarine that callously ran down two lifeboats and a liferaft. But another sub commander gallantly permitted a fully lighted neutral vessel to approach a sinking freighter and pick up survivors...
...From Hawaii came a rush order for badly needed Army materiel, to occupy 400 cubic feet of space. Only ship leaving San Francisco was a Navy vessel. The Army begged the Navy for space, was turned down. Officials investigated, discovered that one hold in the Navy ship carried only peanuts, candy, soft drinks, cigarets. The Navy said the shipment was needed to bolster Navy morale. The ship sailed without the Army's order...
...Counted by longshoremen as time lost was time spent loading one vessel going to Batavia and Singapore with empty beer bottles consigned to a Dutch brewery...
Sailor Forsdal made it. When a Coast Guard vessel picked up the two men they were so heavily coated with congealed oil that they weighed (the Coast Guard captain estimated) 500 Ib. apiece...