Word: shipyards
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...trouble began almost a year ago. When workmen with injured hands reported to the shipyard hospital, attendants allowed them to put their hands or feet into an X-ray machine and watch the waggling shadows of their bones on a fluoroscopic screen. X-rays are literally death rays which kill flesh when too powerful or upon prolonged exposure. Apparently the workmen X-rayed themselves for several minutes. Skilled X-ray technicians limit exposure to only a few seconds...
...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...