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Show America Strengthens Sea and Air Arm t 1 .-x f I v '"i " " pp4-i Pictured at left is a view of the keel laying for the new 10,000-ton cruiser, Wilkes-Barre, at the recently re-opened century-old Cramps shipyards, near Philadelphia. Upper right: Widely heralded new flying fortress, probably world's deadliest instrument of destruction, emerges from the Boeing plant in Seattle for first test flight. Lower right: The V. S. cruiser San Juan, after being launched at the Fore River yard of the Bethlehem Steel company, Quincy, Mass. |