Word: twentyfold
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...nation's annual steel capacity), buildings, machine tools, engines, multitudinous fittings, parts, precision instruments by the freight-carful. The job involved not only freighters but ore carriers, tugs, tankers. It involved priorities and allocation problems, as naval building also exploded into new, titanic activity. It meant a twentyfold increase of the 1939 rate of building by the end of 1942. It meant the mobilization of the country's shipbuilding brains...