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GREA TEST PART OF CONSTRUCTION WORK DONE DURING COLDEST WEA THER IN HISTORY
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JJ1ir'Vn?5 FIELDS floating in on the tides of the Delaware in the winter of 1917-18 often ipterf ered with dredging and excavating. When they - .
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND PILES, each 60 by 70 feet in length, were driven on which to TJfc&Sy thawed and the tides receded, they left a quagmire through which t housands of hardy workmen floundered day and night. It was difn- rtl
lay the foundations for the world's greatest shipyard under conditions like those pictured above. A LlJLG cu'' en v'sua''ze Pe Hog Island of today, but the master minds who conceived the project kept their eyes on the blueprints and a
2v "carried on" to a finish.
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HOG ISLAND'S 846 acres were covered with snow when he. first keel was laid February 12. 1918. On that dav the shinvard was half comnlete. This Dicture shows hov thn crreaier tiortion of ths tract InnlcpH whnn the United States Shinnincr Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation determined to expand the original plans, calling for the expenditure of 520,000,000, into a gigantic project calling for $63,000,000, the mere undertaking of which astonished the shipbuilding world and brought home to Germany A
the realization of America's limitless potentialities in making war. The kaiser's pro pagandists, foreseeing the possibility of Hog Island one day outbuilding the destructive power of the U-boats, immediately began a campaign in this country tending to 2?
delay operations there anil' to discredit the project.
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'SKVUNTY LOCOMOTIVE CRANES, were useifjn coi9tn)ciing th'is mighty shipbuilding mavhine. Jdere s a balUry of,fifty of thcni, drawn jun r IN THE EABLA
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