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Show Pearl Harbor Finishes Mammoth New Drydock PEARL HARBOR. The navy has a new drydock, built in less than a year one-third the normal peacetime peace-time schedule and capable of handling han-dling the navy's biggest ships, built or building. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, termed it a magnificent achievement achieve-ment of construction. Rear Admiral William R. Furlong, commandant of the Pearl Harbor navy yard, said the dock would play an important part in winning the Pacific war. |