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...newspapermen assigned to the President were curious. At the last stop on his "nonpolitical" trip to Tennessee they had trailed him all morning on a tour of an armor-plate mill in South Charleston, W. Va. As they climbed into their car on the Presidential Special they were surprised by word that the President would hold a special press conference after they got under way. The train pulled out of Charleston, rocked along the bank of the torrential Kanawha...
...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...
Last week in Washington the War Department grabbed time by the forelock, signed a $16,075,000 order for smokeless powder to be turned out by Hercules Powder Co. (operators of the famed Charleston, W. Va. nitro plant of 1918) from a mill still to be built near Radford, Va. Only the week before the Army had signed a $25,000,000 contract with Hercules to put up the plant and operate it on a cost-plus basis. It was the second construction contract to be let in 1940's defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated...
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...
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...