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...Colombian string correspondent, reported that the story first made Rodriguez the talk of Bogota, then attracted six prospective buyers into his studio and brought him commissions to paint two portraits for 2,000 pesos ($800) apiece. By last week he had received mail from readers in Louisville, Detroit, Montreal, Manitowoc (Wis.), Bedford (Ohio), Sinton (Texas), Prescott (Ariz.), Bay Shore (N.Y.) and Montrose (Calif...
Stunned and bleeding, T/5 Louis F. Korineck Jr. of Manitowoc, Wis. turned up at a battalion aid station of the 38th Division on Luzon this week, demanding to know all the details about his wound. A doctor told him a bullet had penetrated his helmet above his left ear, creased his scalp and passed out of the helmet above his right ear. Then Korineck remembered something more important than treatment: "Call the sergeant right away," he shouted. "Tell him that sniper is right where we thought...
These modest words were spoken last week by a modest man: trim, 6-ft., ruddy-cheeked Charles Cameron West, founder-owner of Wisconsin's booming Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., who loves to stride around in muddy shoes, greet workmen by their first names-and build anything that goes to sea. A shipbuilder for 42 of his 65 years, Charles West never broke a Kaiser record, never stole a Kaiser headline. Yet last week he had his own claim to fame as the only inland builder of intricate, tightly packed, oceangoing submarines, was doing so well he had orders for enough...
With a Cornell engineering degree in his hip pocket, Charlie went to work for Chicago's American Shipbuilding Co. in 1900, picked up tricks of the trade for two years, quit to buy an ancient, near-dormant shipyard at Manitowoc, Wis. It had been a clipper shipyard since 1847, and Charlie built one wooden ship for tradition's sake, then switched to steel. To speed things along he rounded up a wide-awake, corner-cutting engineering staff, set up large machine shops to make boilers and engines, shape every piece of steel used in a West-built ship...
...most important firms in the U.S. The Electric Boat Co., on the Thames River at Groton, Conn., has almost a monopoly of U.S. sub-building know-how. Only other U.S. sub-builders are two Navy yards (Portsmouth, N.H. and Mare Island, Calif.) and a new private venture at Manitowoc, Wis. Even the Manitowoc yard is staffed and supervised (not owned) by Electric Boat Co., and its product is Ebco-guaranteed. All three rival yards combined have fewer ways, less equipment than Ebco. Ebco got started in 1899 when it took over the original sub patents of Inventor John P. Holland...