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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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The U.S. Navy awards contracts to seven shipbuilding companies for ten new 35-knot destroyers, totaling about $4.5 million each, amid criticism of government refusal to aid millions of starving unemployed.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.—War preparations rush ahead. The navy department has just taken bids for construction of ten big new 35-knot destroyers. Bath Iron Works, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Maryland Drydock Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., New York Shipbuilding Co., Pusey & Jones Corporation, and United Dry Docks, Inc., are dividing the work among them, each building on one or two of the destroyers. Bids for hull and machinery only range around $3,000,000 each. The ordinance equipment will be about $1,500,000 for each ship.
This money comes from the U. S. government, which refuses to give one penny to save the lives of the millions of starving unemployed
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Washington, D. C.
Event Date
Sept. 18.
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contracts divided among seven companies; each destroyer costs approximately $3,000,000 for hull and machinery plus $1,500,000 for ordnance equipment; u.s. government provides funding but refuses aid to unemployed.
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Navy department takes bids for ten new 35-knot destroyers; work divided among Bath Iron Works, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Maryland Drydock Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., New York Shipbuilding Co., Pusey & Jones Corporation, and United Dry Docks, Inc., with each building one or two; funded by U.S. government despite no aid for starving unemployed.