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Uruguay, in compensation for the Montevideo, seized the Tacoma, interned Graf Spee supply ship, suspended all sailings, clamored for convoys. Rioters looted Axis stores...
Elected to the committee by the members of the House were Juniors Walter B. Kamp of Milwaukee and Maynard M. Miller of Tacoma, Washington. The three Sophomores selected were Donald J. Davis of New York, Philip M. Foisie of Berkeley, California, and David D. Vaughan of Richmond, Virginia...
Scrap-conscious OPM conservationists last week saved for defense the rusting skeleton of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") from a watery grave in Puget Sound. Scrap dealers had not been interested until OPM stirred them up. Now they figure they can salvage it at a. profit even under the $20-a-ton scrap ceiling. Result: addition of 3,500 tons to tne shrinking U.S. scrap-steel stockpile, enough to build 500 light tanks...
Some substitute post-war markets it already plans to invade: >An aluminum design was submitted for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Alcoa is glad that was not accepted, but plans to bid on many another bridge job after...
...speed in building, the Navy today has work afoot in ten of its own yards, more than 125 yards of private contractors. Before its yard expansion is finished, it will have laid out $800,000,000 for plant and equipment. From Tacoma, Wash, to Bath, Me., its working crews are on the go in three shifts 24 hours a day, 48 hours a week. The number of men employed has increased from 167,274 to 375,000, by next summer will reach...