Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousands (850,000 by the end of the year), an estimated 6,000,000 tons of steel a year (14% of the nation's annual steel capacity), buildings, machine tools, engines, multitudinous fittings, parts, precision instruments by the freight-carful. The job involved not only freighters but ore carriers, tugs, tankers. It involved priorities and allocation problems, as naval building also exploded into new, titanic activity. It meant a twentyfold increase of the 1939 rate of building by the end of 1942. It meant the mobilization of the country's shipbuilding brains...
...under way. First to be delivered: the Patrick Henry from the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard in Baltimore. An endless brood of Liberty ships, unbeautiful but worthy, began to plop into the waters. The fabulous Henry J. Kaiser (dams, concrete, magnesium) spat on his hands, went to work at Portland, Ore. Under Kaiser's son, Edgar, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. yards were launching two ships a week by February 1942. By the middle of March the yard had launched 20, delivered nine, sent a tenth ship on her trial run. Award...
...Lakes fleet of 750 vessels will be ready, with crews signed on, bunkers filled, provisions aboard, and steam up when the ice breaks up at Duluth, at the Soo, at Cleveland, at Buffalo. Between that date and early December, the 300-odd U.S. and Canadian ore boats will have to move more ore than was ever before thought possible. They will have to carry 90 million tons, or better-mostly from Duluth and Superior to the lower Lake ports-750-1,000 miles by water. Last year they carried 80 million tons (20% more than the previous record...
Coal pays 40-55? per ton water freight, and if they lose that, most independent shipping companies may show a loss. No ore rates for this season have yet been set, but tall, dapper Alexander Thomas Wood, president of the Lake Carriers Assn., last week started rate negotiations in Washington...
...ease this shipping situation, sixteen ore carriers are being built for the Maritime Commission, five for Pittsburgh S.S. Co. Detroit's twelve automobile carriers (no longer needed) may be rebuilt to carry ore, and ships formerly handling wheat may be switched to the dusty, dirty ore trade. If they are, Northwestern elevators, already jammed with last year's wheat carry-over, will have little room to store this season's wheat harvest...