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...When a tanker manned by strikebreaking seamen put in at the Pew family's big Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. yards in Chester, Pa., Sun members of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers refused to service it, struck. Union officials improved the occasion by demanding more pay, a 36-hour week, a closed shop. On the fourth morning some 1,500 strikebreakers lined up, marched toward the yards. Picketers met them with fists, bricks, clubs, lead pipes. Police rushed in with tear gas, managed to separate the rioters for a few minutes. On the second clash, five fire engines...
...usefulness of modern repair ships is restricted since they can make only minor or temporary repairs on smaller craft. To correct such major difficulties on a capital ship as a broken propeller or rudder or a loosened plate below the waterline, the ship must be hauled into drydock, which may be thousands of miles away. Last week the Navy Department told how it proposed to overcome this difficulty with a $15,000,000 floating drydock, a strange craft that would not seem out of place among the weird illustrations of Popular Science Monthly...
...Navy Department bases its predictions of success for the ARD-3, which will cost about twice as much as a stationary drydock, on its experience with the ARD-1, a small experimental craft of some similar design, which it has been trying out for two years on small destroyers and submarines. When bids are opened this week for the construction of the ARD-3, shipbuilders will be preparing bids for the building of the ARD-2, a sister dock of the experimental ARD-1, which is 446 ft. long. The ARD3 is intended for use in the Pacific and will...
...Repertory Theatre will see on Friday and Saturday evenings, December 14 and 15, is a stylized unit set. Created by John C. Haggott '35, president of the Club, it is now materializing under the direction of Spencer B. Fulweiler '37, stage manager, in the Minerva Seenic Art Studio and Drydock, in Boston...
...presented to the New York Yacht Club by the owners of the little schooner America, which had won it in 1851. America, later called Camilla and Memphis, was used as a despatch boat in the Civil War, later sold for $5,000. In 1901 she was put in drydock at Boston. In 1921, she was presented to the U. S. navy. Now at Annapolis, America is the oldest of the 5,338 yachts listed in Lloyd's Register of American Yachts...