Word: keels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With 250-350 locally recruited employes, Cohen and Crowley put on one of the quickest construction jobs Georgia had ever seen. Empire drove the first pile on May 31, poured some $800,000 into its Savannah Shipyards. Last week three shipways, four craneways were nearly complete. The keel for the first of twelve Victory ships will be laid about Dec. 1-less than two months after the Maritime Commission, finally relenting, granted the contract. Also under way: a $1,500,000 housing project for Savannah's 4,000 prospective shipyard employes...
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...
...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...