Show GPs Outsmart Ship Builders Seventy homesick GI'S in 4 Manila have proved that experienced exper-ienced shipbuilders were completely com-pletely cockeyed in their estimates esti-mates about the time and cost required to transform a Liberty Ship into a troop carrier. Shipbuilders told Congress it would take two months and S3 million to convert a single ship. The 70 soldiers did it in 48 hours and . required nothing but tools and a pile of lumber. Now more Liberties are being changed over and the homecoming of thousands thous-ands of vets will be-speeded. When the GI's first suggested that Liberty Ships be converted to take them home Army officials offi-cials said it couldn't be done. . Looks like the boys were smarter than the "brass" and the shipbuilders on this one. |