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...numerical inadequacy, will persist in spite of any juggling of rents. But the Masters have, at least on paper, cleaned out some of the unfairness which has been without intention a part of the old system of assigning rooms. Prices will in the future be on a more even keel among the Houses and students may allow themselves more than a fervent hope of getting what they want for what they...
Their parts were fabricated in inland mills shipped to the yard for assembly. The first keel was laid Feb. 12, 1918, the last 22 months later. The first ship was launched Aug. 5, 1918-less than eleven months after the yard was begun. At peak production, a keel was laid every five and one-half days. One day in 1919 five ships smoked down the ways into the Delaware in 48 minutes, ten seconds...
Three years ago Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. laid the keel of the U. S.'s finest luxury liner. Named America, destined for U. S. Lines, the $17,587,000 beauty was to be the U. S.'s new bid for the transatlantic passenger trade. World War II changed all that...
...cost). Ingalls welds complete stern assemblies, bow sections, etc. up to 75 tons on platforms in the yard, swings them into place with big gantry cranes. It reverses old-line shipbuilding techniques by laying decks on shored-up timbers, then attaching framework (ribs, etc.), instead of building from the keel up. It estimates a 16% saving in steel over a riveted ship of the Exchequer's capacity, which would have needed 1,250,000 rivets as well as overlapping plates. And it claims a maintenance triumph because welded ships can be repaired by welding too. (Cost of repairing riveted...
...soap prices. Up rose young (35) S. Bayard Colgate, great-grandson of the founder. Using his family's 40% ownership of the firm's stock as a lever, he booted Pearce out, took over the presidency, in one year had the company once more on an even keel...