Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actions of President Roosevelt and Candidate Roosevelt. It was announced that he would speak at the dedication of TVA's Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga on Labor Day, speak again in the Great Smoky Mountains. Then the President will inspect a naval armor and gun plant at South Charleston, W. Va. Recalling that President Roosevelt had declared during the Chicago convention that he thought it unwise to leave Washington during the crisis, statisticians checking back over his record since then found that he has spent six days cruising on the Potomac, eleven at Hyde Park, seven on defense inspection trips...
Dead slow though this schedule seemed to anxious landlubbers, it looked like fair speed to those who knew the tough realities. New construction already clogged the ways at most of the Navy's own yards (Brooklyn, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Boston, Mare Island, Charleston, Philadelphia, Puget Sound). Few and busy were the private yards geared to produce warships (Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Bethlehem Steel, Bath Iron Works, Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Electric Boat Co.). Also at or near capacity were the only three private producers of naval armor plate (Bethlehem, U. S. Steel, Baldwin...
...Charleston, S. C., last week a group of Willkiecrats announced that they will form a fusion party, support Democratic candidates for local office, Republican Presidential electors. New Deal-hating Editor William Watts Ball, son of a Confederate Army officer, announced himself for Willkie in the Charleston News & Courier...
Also for Willkie was the Charleston Post...
Bethlehem is expanding on other fronts too. Bethlehem is one of the four U. S. steelmakers capable of making heavy armor plate. The others: U. S. Steel, Baldwin Locomotive's Midvale Co., the U. S. Government's Naval Ordnance Plant at South Charleston, W. Va. All these plants, said Bethlehem's boss, mackerel-jawed Eugene Grace, are adding or about to add to their capacity. Through its shipbuilding division, Bethlehem is also the U. S. Navy's No. 1 private supplier. For the sake of a two-ocean fleet, the U. S. Government is building...