Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drastic as it sounded, employers were skeptical about how much good WMC's order would do. It did not tell workers where they should go, if & when the shipyards release them. And it did not apply to the Bremerton Navy Yard or to Henry Kaiser's prize operation at Vancouver, Wash. (now busy turning out aircraft carriers), which is outside the Puget Sound area. Since WMC cannot change the hard fact that WLB has allowed shipyard wages to be stabilized at a higher level than most other war wages (including aircraft), the best bet was that most...
...bulkheads, got her afloat. At a repair base, Seabees made her seaworthy enough to risk the 5,800-mile trip home. During that three-week voyage the sea sloshed in & out of the two holes in her, one 39 ft. across, the other 47. At a west coast shipyard engineers discovered that her keel was broken in two places...
Since the war Dr. Newman has had to make more sutures than ever. Bay Minette's 2,000 population has been swollen by wartime shipyard workers. Nearest hospitals in Mobile, 30 miles away, are so crowded expectant mothers in the Bay Minette area cannot get beds there...
Whatever else was happening on the inflation front, the War Labor Board still stood firm in the Little Steel sector. Last week, in an announcement now as routine as late trains, WLB denied a raise to 1,000,000 A.F. of L. and C.I.O. shipyard workers, thus repulsed the greatest single mass attack yet made on the Little Steel formula...
Down the launching ways at the big Bethlehem Fore River shipyard at Quincy, Mass, slid the destroyer escort Harmon, first U.S. warship named for a Negro. Navy Secretary Frank Knox had assigned the name in honor of Roy Harmon, Navy messman, who gave his life aboard the cruiser San Francisco in the Battle of Guadalcanal last November...