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"going to run the world. That was considered the unsinkable flagship that commanded all the harbors of the customers of Europe… where you cashed in in everything you stole from the Orient.
"The Navy at that time was very secondhand… This was before World War I. Our chief battleship was Admiral Dewey’s flagship. Because of their enormous sinkings they had to be refurbished from America; enormous production, and they wanted all these ships, and many men brought across the ocean to fight; and above everything they needed to build up their naval strength. Therefore, they had to allow the American Navy to come to parity with the British Navy… And I was at the Naval Academy and they had to have the men that ran ships: That was the big show.
“I want you to realize, then, how very different this whole complex of events is… And I’d become so familiar with my filing problem. In those days we didn’t have a computer. The only thing we had was something called the Ford Range Keeper. And that became the property of the Sperry Corporation. We had it on the bridge of obly the very biggest ships… and we had to do everything longhand. And they had, down in the plotting room down in the bowels of the ship; it was really the command”
