Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
...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...