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Last week two more powerful Essex-class carriers, the Bennington and the Shangri-La, were launched from East Coast shipyards. When they join the fleet, at least eleven of these 27,000-ton flattops will be in operation-barring possible sinkings...
...Newport News the 27,000-ton carrier Ticonderoga was launched, towed off to the fitting-out dock, the ninth of the new Essex class to be launched since 1942. Ticonderoga was also one of the early 1944 guaranties by the world's most powerful navy that this year's building would outdo the spectacular record...
...carriers of the Essex class...
...Nine converted cruiser carriers (Independence class), which are flattops built on cruiser hulls, somewhat smaller than the Essex class but fast and formidable...
...least 23 New Jersey schools closed. A quarter of the workers at some Essex County war plants stayed home...