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...newspapermen assigned to the President were curious. At the last stop on his "nonpolitical" trip to Tennessee they had trailed him all morning on a tour of an armor-plate mill in South Charleston, W. Va. As they climbed into their car on the Presidential Special they were surprised by word that the President would hold a special press conference after they got under way. The train pulled out of Charleston, rocked along the bank of the torrential Kanawha...
...delicate problem in discriminating between the actions of President Roosevelt and Candidate Roosevelt. It was announced that he would speak at the dedication of TVA's Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga on Labor Day, speak again in the Great Smoky Mountains. Then the President will inspect a naval armor and gun plant at South Charleston, W. Va. Recalling that President Roosevelt had declared during the Chicago convention that he thought it unwise to leave Washington during the crisis, statisticians checking back over his record since then found that he has spent six days cruising on the Potomac, eleven at Hyde...
...Pacific and a small squadron in the uncertain Atlantic. Its 15 battleships made up the most powerful battle line of any navy, but the average dreadnought age is 23 years. Three were so far outdated that Congress was asked to vote money to modernize their guns and armor. In the impressive total of destroyers were 109 World War I veterans, recently recommissioned. The U. S. was behind both Great Britain and Japan in the important categories of cruisers and carriers...
...Puget Sound). Few and busy were the private yards geared to produce warships (Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Bethlehem Steel, Bath Iron Works, Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Electric Boat Co.). Also at or near capacity were the only three private producers of naval armor plate (Bethlehem, U. S. Steel, Baldwin Locomotive's subsidiary Midvale Co.) and the Navy's armor factory at Charleston, W. Va. Armor-plate capacity doubled in the past year, would have to be doubled again. Manufacturers of many a needed naval item declined to expand their plants-capacity...
...time, part of the textile industry of the region was ruined because India, Japan and the U. S. set up their own looms. But the Midlands remained a world armory and utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...