Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks today the 1,200-acre Higgins Liberty Shipyard outside New Orleans. Amid a burst of fanfare, it was started six months ago as a gigantic project to build cargo ships on a water-borne assembly line. Two months ago the vast yard teemed with 7,000 workmen, scores of pile drivers, steam shovels, drag lines, floodlights. Over $10,000,000 was spent. Then suddenly came Maritime Commission orders: Close the yard. Official reason: the steel shortage...
...temporarily a crazy quilt of inefficient use of manpower-too many workmen, too few foremen, long waits, misplanned work, shovel-leaning by workers who have nothing to do. One bad example was turned up last week in Seattle, where for two weeks Reporter Don Magnuson worked in a shipyard building destroyers, found enough loafing and inefficiency for a series of shocker stories for the Seattle Times. Reported Magnuson...
...make it possible for more men to work on a ship at one time, operations are subdivided and spread widely over a shipyard. Thus more men can work on a ship at once than if most of the work had to be done on the ways and in the crowded interior of a ship under construction...
...Francisco pretty Alice Wong, a bride of three months, looked in her hope chest. She had always wanted an elaborate wedding, but her husband, a shipyard worker and a patriot, had used the money to buy war bonds. Alice Wong laid the bonds aside, stared at the pretty things in the chest. Presently she drank poison and so died...
...Francisco, heavy-spending shipyard workers have boosted nightclub business 30%. Mixed with the workers are thousands of sailors on leave and soldiers about to embark, all having one last fling. But regular socialite clubgoers are fewer. The fancy Bal Tabarin has dropped pâté de jole gras, crêpes suzettes, etc., from the menu, replaced them with plain English and a hot meat special...