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Show HIGHLIGHTS in th New York: The first of the so-called so-called Cinderella Fleet had been commissioned, and went out on the Atlantic looking for U-boats. The boat, 110 feet long, has a wooden hull and with twin high-speed Diesel engines. en-gines. The first was officially called the PC 505, but to navy men she was a Cinderella boat. They are being be-ing fabricated in large numbers all over the nation at small boatyards. Cleveland: The scrap metal shortage short-age allegedly had caused a drop of 150,000 tons of Republic steel during the past five months, it was reported. report-ed. Government steps to move the scrap were gradually relieving the situation, it was said. London: Sir Stafford Cripps hna returned safely from India to England, Eng-land, but his mission generally had been considered to have failed. |