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Three years ago Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. laid the keel of the U. S.'s finest luxury liner. Named America, destined for U. S. Lines, the $17,587,000 beauty was to be the U. S.'s new bid for the transatlantic passenger trade. World War II changed all that...
Under 776, the company's Common stockholders had got over 67% of preferred holders to agree to a plan giving them a piece of the solvent, new company (to be known as Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.), had got their plan past the Federal courts as fair, feasible and equitable...
When seen the Bremen was in drydock and was hastily having its abovedeck superstructure dismantled for immediate conversion into an aircraft-carrier. As far as this gentleman could ascertain work was proceeding ahead on twenty-four-hour schedule. Local people did not know for sure what the identity of the drydocked vessel was, but it was understood among shipping people that it could only have been the Bremen...
...Attorney General Frank Murphy to agree provided it can become a going concern again, started reorganizing to open its moldy Cramp's yard in Philadelphia. On the west coast, where last spring the U. S. Navy had tried unsuccessfully to buy Bethlehem Steel's Hunters Point Drydock in San Francisco harbor, and where Admiral Land is determined to build two new shipyards, the rush to restore obsolete capacity was wildest. Western Pipe and Steel, a small steel fabricator which did only a $5,336,034 gross business last year, booked a $10,635,000 order from Chairman-Admiral...
Early one morning last week, 115 days after the submarine Squahis sank off the New Hampshire coast, salvage boats tugged her to drydock at Portsmouth Navy Yard. On hand to watch the grim job of opening her hatch were her skipper, Lieut. Oliver Naquin, and 27 of 32 fellow survivors...