Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead centre. In London the Ministry of Economic Warfare announced that it would grant a blanket navicert to the American Red Cross for a shipment of food and medical supplies to France and Spain. In Washington, Red Cross Chairman Norman Davis quickly supplied details. This month the old Hog Islander S.S. Cold Harbor will sail from Baltimore, U. S. flags and Red Cross emblems (brilliantly lighted at night) unmistakably painted on her. To Spain will go 4,500 tons of whole-wheat flour, 250 tons of powdered whole milk, 250 tons of evaporated and condensed milk. There will be more...
...emergency program was Hog Island, on the Delaware River just below Philadelphia. There rose the world's largest shipyard: 250 buildings, 80 miles of railroad tracks, 50 shipbuilding ways, 28 outfitting berths. Hog Island was not strictly a shipbuilding plant but a ship-assembly plant. Most Hog Islanders were identical...
Altogether, the yard turned out 122 ships. But not one was finally delivered to the Government until two months after the Armistice. Hog Island's effect on the war was more psychological than practical...
...that remained of Hog Island shipyard last week were a few tag ends of foundations rotting in the water. But scores of squat, ugly Hog Islanders still plowed the seas, slow but effective Marthas of a U. S. merchant marine now seven times larger than at the outbreak of World War I. And last week Franklin Roosevelt gave the signal to build the Hog Islands of World War II-new yards to assemble 200 identical 7,500-ton, prefabricated cargo ships, to cost from...
...proposal calls for the first ship to leave the ways within twelve months, the last a year later. If it goes through on schedule, it will far surpass Hog Island's record...