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Seattle shipyards brace for peacetime boom and exports
Postwar Seattle leaders pledge continued shipbuilding and manufacturing strength. Industry heads anticipate two to three years of steady output, with expanded exports, new steel and wood yards, and renewed demand from Europe, Asia, and the Pacific coast. They cite cheap power, skilled labor, and proximity to resources as keys to growth.
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Seattle
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
Schwab
Emergency Fleet Corporation
United States
D. E. Skinner
Skinner & Eddy Car
Industre
Europe
America
A Iiner
West
James F. Twohy
Long North Pacific Shipbuilding Co
J. H. Bloedel
Washington
East
Orient
Siberia
Japan
Ostrander
France
Russia
R. H. Mattison
Chamber of Commerce
New
Mattison
Fir
Fleet Corporation
K. H. Scheel
Treiber & Scheel
Naval Architects
Scheel