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Show t The way some folks yell for ta' I reductions you would think thei expect other people to pay for th, war. HOSPITAL SHIPS 4 In 1939, the Army had no hos- ( i Today, the nation possesses a fleet ! pital ships and the Navy only one. I of 36 new hospital ships with a ca-j ca-j pacity of 22,000 patients. Frank Taylor, president of the American Merchant Marine Institute, says 4 that the best land comparison for one of these ulta-modern hospital ships is to say that it is the floating float-ing equivalent of a seven to nine-story nine-story hospital, covering a small city block. |