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'f v WHA T I HAVE SEEN A T HOG ISLAND IS WONDERFUL, " SAID PRESIDENT WILSON AFTER VISIT
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HOG ISLAND to the visitor and sightseer is more than a shipyard it is n spectacle which leaves an impression that beggars description. It inspires and thrills. Its forest of derrick booms serving fifty shipways startles the imagination. It ai
astonishes the engineer and shipping expert. "I could never have conceived anything of the kind, if I had not seen that yard," says James French, chief surveyor for Lloyd's Register of Shipping. "It is the greatest thing of its kind in the world.
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"DAMN THE COST! BUILD THE SHIPS 1"
, Hog Island, answered with night shifts.
came the cry from the War Department when the Germans were rushing on Paris,
Above is a night scene In the yard, showing the shipways lighted by electricity,
MANY BUILDINGS are required to house the administrative forces at Hog Island. Here is a view of a few of them, looking
northeast from the bridge crane. More than 100 acres are under, roof at this mammoth plant.
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MILLIONS OF DOLLARS'1 .WORTH of fabricated .steel plates -and, othorshipbulldlnir -supplies in typical storage yard. Sixty-three thousand , six hundred and thirty-ono separate orders wre placed for lumber alone for Hpg Island, -Thirty-eight, ,nl
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