Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-&-blue thrills ran up & down backs of Congressmen when Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, told this fact to his colleagues. He was just explaining how unconquerably large the U.S. Navy will be when 1,900,000 tons of warships (see p. 45) provided in a bill which last week unanimously passed the House, have been completed...
Congressmen on the floor of the House did their best to realize what a historic announcement had issued from Carl Vinson's prosaic lips. He had, in effect, announced that some time between 1944 and 1946 the U.S. would emerge as a world power fabulously more dominant than Britain ever...
...little as two years ago the nation would have been shocked at Carl Vinson's announcement. Last week Congressmen applauded. But Americans had not yet fully understood -if, indeed, he had fully understood himself -the fateful, the far-reaching, the now inevitable implications of what he said...
...Many? When Pearl Harbor knocked the U.S. into the war, there were seven U.S. carriers in service, eleven on the ways. Since then, work has begun on two others of unannounced tonnage. Last week House Naval Affairs Committee Chairman Vinson revealed that about 35 cruisers and merchant ships are being converted to carriers. Some cruisers and merchant ships, almost completed, have been made over into flattops. Some of these carriers will probably be Lend-Leased to Britain, but that most must be kept by the U.S. is obvious to anyone who can do long division: an average carrier...
Spurred by public apprehension, the House Naval Affairs Committee behind closed doors heard Navy's side of the situation from naval bigwigs, afterward announced: "Chairman Vinson and the Naval Committee feel that they may properly communicate to the country a feeling of confidence in the Navy and in its conduct of anti-submarine warfare. . . . Unfortunately the only types in which [the shipbuilding program] is not well ahead of schedule are those most needed in combatting submarines. ... It does not pay to be unduly optimistic. However . . . in the past few weeks the submarine has largely withdrawn from our eastern seaboard...