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The emergency yards, 1 ing versatility, swiftly closed; the old-line fi with their overhead situations aggravated by curtailment of naval work, grasped at every s' to keep going. Battleship yards contracted trawlers, ferryboats, railway cars, and hydn turbines.Two Merchant Marine acts, those of 1920 1928, contained provision to encourage mere construction. The inducements of the 1920 were quite inadequate; only 15 vessels aggating 101,511 gross tons were inspired by its construction-loan provisions up to and including 1928. The 1928 act, which provided mail contracts and more liberal construction loans for vessels engaged in foreign trade, produced better results.

The cover was an in dustrial photograph by Margaret Bourke-White of th< construction of a great dam near Fort Peck, Montana, k the style for which, as a photographer for Fortune, she was noted. The opening picture story, however, focused not on the construction, but on the life of the builders oi the dam and their families in temporary cities in the desert. It was not what the editors had assigned, and they wrote, by way of introduction: What the Editors expected—for use in some later issue-were construction pictures as only Bourke-White can take them. What the Editors got was a human document of frontier life which, to them at least, was a revelation.

The requirements of the Rules apply to steel vessels of all welded construction. Riveted construction, where used, is to comply with the applicable parts dealing with riveting in the 1969 edition of the Rules.