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One of the biggest independent U. S. steel fabricators, Ingalls Iron Works began looking for new markets for its product early in Depression I. Leasing part of a shipyard at Mobile, later building a yard of its own at Decatur, Ala., it began turning out barges, towboats, all manner of...
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. is well under way on its $10,400,000 contract, let in February 1939, for four Maritime Commission cargo ships for American Export Lines. In the yard at Decatur an estimated $1,000,000 worth of river craft were last week building. But the big feather in...
But Ingalls will have to build many more ships to make good its boast that its new methods will revolutionize U. S. shipbuilding. In contrast with the machine-gun clamor of most shipyards, Pascagoula's noises are a sibilant hiss. Biggest plug for welding is the fact that one...
Ingalls' officials were most interested last week, however, in the fact that they had completed their first big ocean-going ship and made a profit on it. Moreover, they had done the job so cheaply that they expected to turn back money to the Maritime Commission, which limits profits...
A $500,000 shipyard, built fresh from the ground up, it would have needed ten times as much capital to build riveted ships and equip a plant to fabricate its own steel, which comes from its parent company, Ingalls Iron Works Co., at Birmingham, Ala.