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With a Cornell engineering degree in his hip pocket, Charlie went to work for Chicago's American Shipbuilding Co. in 1900, picked up tricks of the trade for two years, quit to buy an ancient, near-dormant shipyard at Manitowoc, Wis. It had been a clipper shipyard since 1847, and Charlie built one wooden ship for tradition's sake, then switched to steel. To speed things along he rounded up a wide-awake, corner-cutting engineering staff, set up large machine shops to make boilers and engines, shape every piece of steel used in a West-built ship...
From Oakland, Calif. came a pertinent note on women in industry. To avoid a truck, a bus full of shipyard workers ground to a sudden teeth-jolting stop. Instead of yelling at their driver, in line with the time-honored practice of bus riders, the passengers jumped out, bawled the devil out of the truck driver for getting in the way of their girl chauffeur...
Things stirred when the President toured U.S. war plants last month, spent more than an hour in the Higgins yards, left impressed. Upshot: a fortnight ago the President directed WPB, the Maritime Commission and the Army to find some use for Higgins' abandoned $10,000,000 shipyard-and find it fast. First result: the huge plane order...
Besides this staff, Higgins has some plant, some materials and some promises. The plant includes a $100,000 shipyard structure which could be used for an aircraft layout room and office building; the materials are a three-year supply of lauan teakwood and pine lumber for plywood; the promises are that the War Department will supply most of the needed machinery. A. J. expects no labor shortage, plans to hire 80% women (50-50 white and colored). Lastly, he has a bagful of tricks which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat...
...best guess was that he was plain tired of being needled. Like a bear with bees buzzing around its noggin, he had struck out wildly. His cronies were agreed that he was not thinking of N.M.U. or any other union; he was just plain mad-at newspaper talk about shipyard loafing, at union squabbles between Joe Curran's N.M.U. and the Seafarers' International Union...