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SEVENTH VEIL Taken a few Instants after the 

 picture on the preceding page, this photograph 

 shows the last vestiges of the condensation cloud 

 still encircling the water column. Invisible to the 

 camera's eye, the complex instrument array is re- 

 cording many statistics concerning this lofty col- 

 umn. Positive conclusions to affect ship design 

 were to come later. On September 7, 1946, the 



significant announcement was made that construc- 

 tion on the 45,000-ton battleship "Kentucky," 70 

 per cent completed, and on the 27,000-ton battle 

 cruiser "Hawaii," 85 per cent completed, would 

 be curtailed until January 1947 pending design 

 changes based on Operation Crossroads as well as 

 on lessons learned during the war. And even more 

 radical changes may be expected in the future. 



