Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Kaiser is not the only big shipbuilder who expects to turn aircraftmaker. Andrew Jackson Higgins announced that, although the Maritime Commission had just closed his huge New Orleans shipyard for lack of steel, the yard would be reopened to construct flying boats. Higgins had just talked with Kaiser, will soon meet him in Washington for a three-way confab with President Roosevelt. When & if Kaiser and Higgins (and maybe others) turn out flying boats as fast as they say they can, the United Nations might begin...
Where the huge shipyard stands today there was only a swamp when smart Stephen D. Bechtel and natty John A. McCone took it over in the fall of 1940. Their first job was driving 60,000 pilings into the mud (a world's record for one job), but that was easy enough after their experience with Henry Kaiser on Boulder Dam and the San Francisco Bay bridge. The real problem was finding and training 40,000 workmen, less than 1% of whom had ever worked in a shipyard before...
Today Calship is the No. 2 emergency U.S. shipyard. It cost $20,000,000, covers 175 acres, has 14 shipways and ten outfitting docks. Like most World War II shipyards, it uses assembly-line prefabrication methods. Its first ship, the John C. Fremont, was 273 days from keel to delivery; last week's Joseph McKenna, only 75. In February Calship delivered one ship, in March three, in April five, in May eleven and in June 15. Cried Maritime Commission Vice Chairman Admiral Vickery: "An inspiration to the nation...
...sail came back to the Caribbean last week as the U.S., with RFC cash, set out to build a thousand new wooden schooners in the little shipyards of the West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia and Central America. First contract for six 300-to 500-ton schooners has been let to a shipyard in the Dominican Republic. The second will go to Cuba...
Good Heart. When Julius Barnes went back to Duluth from Manhattan to reopen his old shipyard last November, 3,000 men lined up for jobs. Many were hired for their special skills, but to pick his other labor he enlisted the aid of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and gave them a professional investigator...