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IN AMERICAN SHIPYARDS EXCEPT IN MEETING URGENT NEEDS (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, December 12. Admiral Howard Vickery, vice-chair-man of the United States Maritime Commission, has ordered shipyards to reduce the work week to six days except where there is an urgent need of a certain type of ship, requiring continuance of the seven-day week. Firstpriority will now be given to the construction of landing craft, 80,000 of which are expected to be built by the ’end of next year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 4
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