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Show uu STEEL ARRIVING IN LARGE QUANTITIES PHILADELPHIA, July IS. (By Mail.) Steel Is no.w arriving at the big government shipbuilding plant at Hog Island in adequate quantities, according ac-cording to H. W. Blood, an engineer for the American International corporation. "rue fabricators of steel parts for ships," Mr. Blood said, "are making good, and the steel committee, recently recent-ly appointed to see that the shipyards are stocked with steel parts, has done much toward the solution of the problem. prob-lem. The Hog Island yard, the largest in the world, is preparing for its first launching on August 4. The ship is the Red Jacket. It is an 8000-ton freighter. Two more SOOO-ton freight carriers are nearly half completed. The second launching is expected to take place a week, after the Red Jacket leaves the ways. The third vessel will follow shortly after the second, and then it will be a week or ten days before be-fore there are further launchlngs. After Aft-er that Hog Island expects to turn out completed hulls at the rate of two a week. |