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Show HOUSING Congress has been asked to authorize au-thorize $600,000,000 for public defense de-fense housing, expected to be required re-quired to take care of the migration migra-tion of 1,600,000 workers seeking new war jobs in the next fiscal year. - o American shipyards set a new ship construction record in April, completing and delivering thirty-six thirty-six merchant vessels. The record exceeds the one-a-day schedule which was set up for April and brought the record for the first four months of 1942 to 106 merchant merch-ant ships placed in war service. o Under an employee-suggestion plan now in operation in one company com-pany a worker can earn as much as a $1,000 defense bond for an idea that increases production on his own job, improves quality, saves material, reduces waste or improves working conditions. i |