NAVAL CONSTRUCTION HELD UP
U.S. STEEL SHORTAGE
MANUFACTURERS REFUSE TO TENDER (Received February 14, 9.17 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 13. The War Department has announced that the construction of six new destroyers and three submarines has been halted by the shortage of steel. Fears are expressed that the building of the two battleships, plans for which were announced recently, will also be delayed. The steel manufacturers, opposing the Walsh-Healy law specifying wages and hours standards, have refused to tender. The navy, needs at least 25,000,0001b of steel. Not even the keels of the destroyers and submarines are laid, although some contracts were let on December 1. ___
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22017, 15 February 1937, Page 9
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