Word: shipyard
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...soon again let its merchant marine decline to the decrepit state it was in at the outbreak of World War II-80% of its vessels obsolete or on the verge. With both Navy and Maritime Commission committed to a three-coast building policy, the South looked to substantial shipyard payrolls for years to come...
...week, Italians were also upset by stories in the international press of violent disaffection in Milan, Turin, Trieste, other crowded cities of the industrial North. Emanating mostly from Belgrade, the reports claimed that three unnamed Italian generals had been assassinated, Trieste women had rioted in a breadline, Lloyd Triestino shipyard workers had struck and angrily burlesqued Il Duce, a mob with knives and pistols had attacked Nazi officers in Milan...
...emergency program was Hog Island, on the Delaware River just below Philadelphia. There rose the world's largest shipyard: 250 buildings, 80 miles of railroad tracks, 50 shipbuilding ways, 28 outfitting berths. Hog Island was not strictly a shipbuilding plant but a ship-assembly plant. Most Hog Islanders were identical...
...that remained of Hog Island shipyard last week were a few tag ends of foundations rotting in the water. But scores of squat, ugly Hog Islanders still plowed the seas, slow but effective Marthas of a U. S. merchant marine now seven times larger than at the outbreak of World War I. And last week Franklin Roosevelt gave the signal to build the Hog Islands of World War II-new yards to assemble 200 identical 7,500-ton, prefabricated cargo ships, to cost from...
...Navy needed all the shipyard space it could find for the 17 battleships, 48 cruisers, 166 destroyers on its construction schedule. The measure of the Navy's need was the fact that cruisers take 32 to 33 months to build. Cramp's will be in shape to begin laying keels next August, will need 18 months to complete its reconditioning...