Word: ship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...came back they were still trudging. They seemed automatons endlessly marching from class to drill and back again; and, watching them we have wondered how they lived through a Cambridge winter with special tortures added by the Navy Department. Tomorrow these Cambridge mariners are leaving the good ship Holyoke for service on the Atlantic. They have had to undergo worse labors than Hercules ever dreamed of, and now laden with new uniforms and much knowledge they depart...
...book that has been compiled is the result of an investigation undertaken several months ago upon the request of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Information in regard to the 60 odd trades involved in the construction of ships is so compiled by the Bureau as to be readily understood by men who are not acquainted with technical terms used by ship-builders. Thus it is now possible for a man to obtain quickly and easily information in regard to some particular trade connected with ship construction. When it is considered that more than 250,000 and possibly more than...
...Ship-Building a "Mysterious...
...Emergency Fleet Corporation that a wise decision as to their fitness for work in the shipyards could be reached by most mechanics without more adequate information than could be offered to them through the employment offices and other ordinary sources of information. So true has it been that ship-building has been a mysterious art that little or nothing of value to the lay reader has been published regarding the operations in ship-building, or of the conditions which must be confronted by those who engage...
...ideal craft with which to comb submarines is now being constructed. Henry Fond, otherwise known as the manufacturer of popular automobiles, has become a ship-builder. On his ways at Detroit he has already laid the keel of a future terror of the seas. Since the Government found that Ford could turn out a most capable though small model of a normal-sized auto, it has requested him to devise a destroyer on the same principles. These boats will be completed as rapidly as possible, probably...