New-York tribune. [volume], June 09, 1918, Page 8, Image 44

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How a
Keel
Is Laid
Eleven seconds after the
" Commandant Challes "
was launched at Portland,
Ore., the keel for the next
ship was laid in its place
The picture on the left, taken
while the ship was still on the
ways, shows the forward
part of the keel lined up,
while two gangs of men are
raising the after part to po?
sition on the blocks?one
gang pushing, and the other
pulling on ropes
The picture at the right,
taken while the spray from
the launching is still in the
air, shows the keel laid and
trued up in eleven seconds.
This record was meide by the
men of the Foundation Com?
pany's Portland (Ore.) yard.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Woodrow Wilson was a professor of jurisprudence at Princeton, and General Pershing was an instructor in tactics at West Point. Samuel Gompers, alone of this group of leaders, had reached his stride at that time, for
he was then President of the American Federation of Labor, and was shaking his finger.
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Luna is all right enough for a party now and then, but it certainly does bore the lions who have to stay there day in and day out