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Henry Shreve did not claim the $100,000, but he started building the boat. Amid sensational rumors and the hoots of river loafers, he laid the keel at Wheeling. "Talk of this hull never died. . . . The vessel defied every principle of shipbuilding." It "was exceedingly shallow of draft, but reared aloft with two decks, one above the other...
Nevertheless, Mr. Hillman was still prepared to maintain that the stabilization agreement was worth preserving. It had kept the construction program running on an even keel. The U.S. was halfway through a $10,000,000,000 building program; now certainly was not the time for revolution in the building field. He was not willing to foster or provoke a bitter labor...
...stocks somewhere between keel-laying and launching (therefore not included in Navy's totals) were four battleships (including two 45,000-tonners, Iowa and New Jersey), a swarm of cruisers, destroyers and submarines. All but a few units of its two-ocean fleet should be in commission...
...Navy's newest battleship touched water last week. Twenty-three months after her keel was laid at Camden, N.J., four months ahead of contract schedule, the great hull of the U.S.S. South Dakota slid, smoking, down greased ways and smacked the Delaware River. In ordinary times, another year would pass before the hull became a ship with all her armor, engines, guns. Now the Navy hopes that New York Shipbuilding Corp. can have the South Dakota ready to commission next January...
...sooner had the South Dakota left the ways than, into the same space (see cut), a waiting crane swung the first keel section for the 10,000-ton cruiser Santa Fe. Already under construction on New York Shipbuilding ways were six more cruisers. And scheduled for later construction there are the first of a wholly new kind of U.S. warship-six of the coming Alaska class, which the Navy selfconsciously refuses to call battle cruisers. The Navy's untidy substitute: "large cruisers...