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Show MISCELLANY: RECORD: American shipbuilders in 1942 turned out a record number of 750 merchant vessels, totaling 8 million tons, according to the National Na-tional Council of Shipbuilders. STRIKES: Man-days lost from war production as a result of strikes dropped to 91,925 in November the lowest since Pearl Harbor. SALVAGE: A Jap radio broadcast reported that engineers had refloated refloat-ed and repaired an 11,000-ton U. S. floating dry dock which it said American forces scuttled last April at Port Marivales, Bataan. IMPREGNABLE: According to French radio reports, Adolf Hitler has nearly finished construction of a "new, impregnable Siegfried line" along the Atlantic seaboard of France. ORDER: The Finnish Information Center in New York has been ordered or-dered by the state department to cease issuing news releases and pamphlets, and the American legation lega-tion in Helsingfors has stopped sending send-ing out bulletins. This development followed reports that Finnish officials offi-cials joined in a toast to the Japanese Japa-nese Pearl Harbor success. |