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...Kaiser did not care. His loud proposal had served its purpose, which was to get him enough steel to supply his Richmond, Calif, shipyard. The industry moved him up on its own private priorities list (at the expense of less vocal customers); he is building his ships with hush steel...
Nearing completion at Camden, NJ. this week is a Government housing project (for defense shipyard workers) the like of which the U.S. has never seen before. Ground for Camden's 500-family Audubon Village was broken only last February. The buildings were made by a partial prefabrication technique which enabled a crew of ten men to knock together walls and roof in three hours. But it is not only speed which makes Audubon Village unique. It is also the financial plan...
...only Congressmen but labor's advocates last week denounced the San Francisco shipyard strike (TIME, May 19). When even Madam Perkins held up her hands in horror, it became 1941's most unpopular walkout...
...Army Transport Service last week announced its largest induction to date: the 24,289-ton liner Manhattan, chartered (for $2,000 a day plus $300 war-risk insurance) from U.S. Lines. Brooklyn shipyard workers are repairing her bottom (injured by the Florida sand bar on which she ran aground in January), installing extra bunks for troops, preparing her for her first Army voyage on June 18-through the Panama Canal to Hawaii with soldiers and materiel...
Winston Churchill asked the House of Commons these questions fortnight ago, and every Briton has been asking himself similar questions. British replacements would certainly not fill the gap. The most optimistic hope for 1941 is 1.000,000 tons, which after shipyard bombings may be closer to 750,000 tons...