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...build 75 of the standardized 7,500-ton freighters, under President Roosevelt's new 200 emergency ship program, yards were under construction at Houston, New Orleans and Wilmington, N. C. At Mobile, Ala., new Gulf Shipbuilding Co. yards were working on their first contract (four cargo ships worth about $12,000,000). Norfolk, Va. had a newcomer in Welding Shipyards, Inc. (starting off with a $4,000,000 tanker...
...anti-aircraft guns on fast Norwegian ships, let them travel independently as some fast British vessels do now. They could then outrun submerged submarines, outshoot surface ones, and take their chances against air attack. > The British make each ship wait its turn to unload in British ports, regardless of cargo value and ship's speed. The Norwegians want port priorities for fast ships carrying only precious cargo...
...Passed bills authorizing $300,000,000 to strengthen anti-aircraft defenses; $909,000,000 to expand shipyards, double Naval ordnance facilities, add 400 various-sized new ships to the Navy; making appropriations and authorizations for a $350,000,000 cargo ship construction program; extending time in which defense industries may apply for plant amortization until 60 days after construction begins. Total appropriated and authorized for defense...
...morning of the seventh day they finally sighted a British warship. With the help of fleet officers and ratings, the tired crew covered the last two-day leg into the Clyde. Still in the San Demetrio's tanks were 10,000 tons of oil, valued, with the freight cargo, at ?60,000. The ship herself, almost new, was worth...
...slow but effective Marthas of a U. S. merchant marine now seven times larger than at the outbreak of World War I. And last week Franklin Roosevelt gave the signal to build the Hog Islands of World War II-new yards to assemble 200 identical 7,500-ton, prefabricated cargo ships, to cost from...