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...time for delivering a Liberty ship from an initial 197 days to an average of under 40 days in his Portland yards, as against an average for the industry of about 56 days. It allowed him to build more cargo ships in his Portland yards in one year than Hog Island built in four. It allowed him to launch one vessel in four days, 15 hours, and another which, 51 days after keel-laying, turned up with cargo in Australia. From the Kaiser empire, sprawling from Seattle to Portland to Los Angeles, came one out of every three Libertys built...
...ersatz materials are often better than the products they replace. Samples exhibited at Chicago's National Chemical Exposition: an Army raincoat that weighs 1½ Ib. less than the old model, saves 1¾ Ib. of rubber; plastic buttons for uniforms; synthetic bristles, tetered like natural hog hairs, for paintbrushes...
Five lines, three sets of defenseman, and three goalies saw action for the Chase men, who were kept from running hog wild only by the outstanding play of Jumbo goalie Steve...
...cotton farmer as FSA co-ops are allotted all of the available pickers for this crop. Most cotton land around here is entirely unsuited for this crop anyway and likewise over a large part of the cotton belt. The shortage of wire fence is keeping down the production of hogs in the South, and this land is not all suitable to the production of hog feeds...
...ordinary seaman in full-rigged British ships. He climbed to able seaman, boatswain, quartermaster, became a U.S. citizen and got his second mate's papers in 1918. Within two years he had the only U.S. master's certificate ever issued a Negro, a double-riveted whole-hog "any ocean, any tonnage" ticket. Still going up, he got a command: the British registry Yarmouth in the West Indies-Central America trade. Not much of a ship, perhaps, but a step in the right direction. Then the company went out of business and Mulzac returned to New York to look...