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...normally enter industry late and retire early, fewer women work, and numerous luxury industries flourish, provides a reserve of 3,000,000 workers. A 10% lengthening of the working week makes up for an additional 2,000,000. That still leaves a deficiency of 1,000,000 workers, partially offset by the employment of a quarter-million aliens as an "international labor force...
...action of the Association in our opinion holds dangers which, unless guarded against, may more than offset its merits...
World War I caught the U. S. with a miserable little merchant fleet of 430 cargo and passenger ships. Foreign bottoms carried over 90% of U. S. overseas trade. When the Allies set up a cry for ships to offset U-boat sinkings in early 1917, the U. S. responded with its Bridge of Ships. The program, carried out by the U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp., built 2,316 ships-the biggest, fastest shipbuilding program ever undertaken...
...offset the loss of Faculty members, the number of sabbatical leaves of absence have been greatly cut down, and the only two professors on sabbaticals for the second half year offered their regular courses during the first semester...
...week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable Cramp yards in Philadelphia reopened with a $106,380,000 Navy order; eight Navy, 23 private yards worked at top speed. Last week, for dessert, the British attempted to offset their shipping losses by placing a $100,000,000 order for 60 10,000-ton (dead weight) freighters in the U. S. For this, the largest single merchant-ship order ever placed, Todd Shipyards started building two new yards, one in California, one in Maine...