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...others-Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock and U. S. Steel's Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock-can turn out anything up through a light cruiser...
Newport News. Biggest independent U. S. shipyard and No. 2 of the Big 3 is Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., a $73,000,000 corporation built 54 years ago by the late Railroader Collis P. Huntington, who knew nothing about ships. With very little interference from its absentee owners, the yard has averaged a cozy $1,500,000 annually for ten or twelve years. In its big, greasy, snarled James River yard (eight ways) last week $180,000,000 worth of ships were building: U. S. Lines' 24,800-ton America, largest U. S. liner ever built...
...Dope Seized on New York Dock" --Daily Mirror...
...pipe through West Virginia mud, laying a 20-mile stretch of solid-mahogany corduroy-road in Venezuela. During World War I he joined Sun Oil's Philadelphia office as aide to Elder Brother John Howard, who is a little taller, greyer, soberer. In 1916 Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had been founded in Chester, Pa. largely to build oil tankers. Under shrewd Pew management Sun Shipbuilding became one of the biggest of its kind; money rolled in. Joe Pew married a Philadelphia girl, Alberta Hensel, quietly joined social life along the Main Line, raised a healthy brood, settled...
...Sakhaline, bung full with 70,000 barrels of crude from the Caucasus, and three more Soviet tankers tagged in her wake. Often before Constantsa dock hands had cheered the arrival of ships from the "Toilers' Fatherland," fraternized in waterfront dives with Soviet sailors. This reception of the Sakhaline was the warmest ever-but different. Shaking their fists, the longshoremen bellowed at the crew to haul down the Soviet flag. "Since Russia attacked Finland, the workers of Rumania know that 'Democracy' is used by the Soviets only as a catch word!" explained the longshoremen's leader...