Word: watervliet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the U.S. Army's Watervliet, Rock Island and Springfield Arsenals they wheedled a little obsolete equipment; from many a New England textile factory they got a machine or two, one 75 years old. A few new ones, destined for already-fallen France, were lifted from the docks. In its Hamden plant, High Standard tore down the outmoded machines; redesigned, rebored, rebuilt them to fit its production line. On March 15 production began; on April 19 the first gun was finished. Production is now 150 a day. There has been only one reject...
...preparatory hum spread through the U. S. last week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings...