Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings. was prepared to convert plant space of World...
...Ernie" Bevin was a callow carter's apprentice at Bristol when famed Ben Tillett, hero of the Dockers' Strike of 1889-greatest of the 19 Century in Britain-found him and took him to London to help run his. dock and transport workers' union, formed in 1911. Rough-tongued old Ben manned the hustings, but Ernie's organizing, policy-planning and negotiating made the Transport and General Workers' Union Britain's biggest, and Ernest Bevin as its tsar the most potent individual outside the Government at the start of World...
Although Germany built her famed 10,000-ton pocket battleships without using a single rivet, she kept secret her welding methods and their results. Until last week the only large all-welded U. S.-built ships were tankers. When the Exchequer steams away from her fitting-out dock, she will hold her first trial run over the U. S. Navy speed course off Guantanamo, Cuba. Reason: Navy and Maritime Commission officials are anxious to find out whether...
...others-Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock and U. S. Steel's Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock-can turn out anything up through a light cruiser...
Newport News. Biggest independent U. S. shipyard and No. 2 of the Big 3 is Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., a $73,000,000 corporation built 54 years ago by the late Railroader Collis P. Huntington, who knew nothing about ships. With very little interference from its absentee owners, the yard has averaged a cozy $1,500,000 annually for ten or twelve years. In its big, greasy, snarled James River yard (eight ways) last week $180,000,000 worth of ships were building: U. S. Lines' 24,800-ton America, largest U. S. liner ever built...