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...with $4,000,000 of business, grabbed $7,560,000 of shipbuilding business, began renovating the old Craig yard. On the northwest coast, Todd Shipyard Corp. (for years mainly an east coast repair yard and boiler maker), with $10,635,000 in new shipbuilding business, started rehabilitating the Todd Tacoma plant for hull construction, Todd Seattle Dry Docks, Inc. for completion and outfitting of vessels. On the Gulf Coast, overworked Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., embarrassed by a $7,800,000 Maritime Commission award for four C-2 cargo ships, induced the Commission to rescind a previous award of five...
...Wheeler Smith '41, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Christopher J. Sotirakis '41, of Clarksburg, West Virginia; Edward M. Steel Jr. '40, of Centerville, Tennessee; Robert p. Stephens '41, of Jacksonville, Florida; Dana W. Stockbridge '40, of Andover, Now Hampshire; Robert B. Stokley '41, of Galion, Ohio; Malcolm W.P. Strandberg '41, of Tacoma, Washington...
...stiff and now gives him a look as rigid as his principles. The chief of these, public ownership of utilities, he has fought for ever since he worked his way to a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1911. While practicing law for such clients as Tacoma's Central Labor Council and the Port of Tacoma, Bone tried to clear the way for publicly owned utilities, using any political broom that came to hand. He has been a candidate on the Socialist, Triple Alliance, Farmer-Labor, Republican and Democratic tickets, a fact of which his opponents...
...Bone won his first election, to the State Legislature, as a Farmer-Laborite. In 1928 he ran for the Republican nomination for Congress, losing, he says, because on election day the power mysteriously failed on Tacoma's privately owned streetcar line, keeping humble voters at home. In 1932 he beat conservative Lawyer Stephen F. Chadwick, present National Commander of the American Legion, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination...
...Tacoma's newspapers immediately an nounced they would not recognize the "censorship," burgeoned with angry talk about "dictators" and "asinine orders." Citizens called up the papers to report petty accidents, robberies, the finding of an unidentified body. At the end of a quiet week Commissioner Eastwood was still holding firm, personally assured Tacomans no one had been murdered or kidnapped since his order took effect...