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Eugene Fudget Grace took office and immediately acted with great efficiency, and he made a series of drastic changes to the structure of the Bethlehem United Steel Company, dividing the Bethlehem United Steel Company into three major subsidiaries, namely the Bethlehem Iron Company, the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company, and the Bethlehem Arms Manufacturing Company.

At the same time, a company called Bethlehem Financial Investments was set up specifically to provide financial services to enterprises in the Bethlehem system.

Steel and shipbuilding are the two major businesses of Bethlehem United Steel Company, especially the marine steel plate produced by Bethlehem Steel Company is widely used in the manufacture of warships, and Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company has undoubtedly become a designated military factory of the United States Navy.

From the beginning of the American Civil War, the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company began to build ironclad warships for the US Navy. After several decades, the Bethlehem shipyard has developed even greater, from the original iron-hulled ship to today's steel warship, and the tonnage has also developed from tens of hundreds of tons to today's twenty or thirty thousand tons.

The shipbuilding base has also expanded from the original Willington in Delaware to Sparrow Point in Maryland, Quincy, Quincy in Massachusetts, Elizabeth in New Jersey and other major eastern ports.

The expansion of the U.S. Navy's strength over the past few decades has been silently supported by a number of backbone enterprises like Berkeley Shipyard. And the Navy's order also stimulated the Berkeley shipyard to grow even more.

The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company is one of the best shipbuilding technology enterprises in the United States, and it produces not only merchant ships of various tons, but also warships.

In particular, the Sparrow Point Shipyard in Maryland and the Front River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, are production bases for U.S. Navy warships.

From 10,000-ton battleships to destroyers, torpedo ships, submarine hunters, and so on. Moreover, his brother company, Berkeley Arms Manufacturing Company, also produces cannons, shells, torpedoes and other weapons and ammunition for warships, and the entire Bethlehem Union Steel Company employs more than 20,000 workers, which is second only to a few giants such as American Steel, Standard Oil, United Railroad, and Ford Motor Corporation.

It can be said that Bethlehem is a joint military-industrial organization with a complete range of types, division of labor and cooperation, and strict organization, integrating iron and steel smelting, machinery manufacturing, and weapons production into a complete industrial chain and efficient production.

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Last year, in 1916, the U.S. Congress passed the Navy Act, which planned to build four 32,000-ton, 16-inch cannon battleships within three years, namely the USS Carolado, the USS West Virginia, the USS Maryland and the USS Washington.

In addition, there are 165 warships of various sizes, such as cruisers, destroyers, submarines, etc., with a total value of $500 million, to defend the United States' status as a maritime power.

However, since the Battle of Jutland, the German High Seas Fleet has been abolished, and can only nest in the harbor to bask in the sun, and the British Royal Navy's battleships have also suffered heavy losses, so the task of building battleships in the United States is not so urgent, and the major shipyards can slow down the construction of battleships a little.

However, the submarine warfare launched by the German Navy made the Americans feel terrified, and seeing the invincible British sea being made bloody by German submarines, the Americans who empathized with it became pragmatic.

In order to deal with German submarines, the U.S. Navy had to learn from Britain to establish an escort system, and a large number of destroyers were needed to escort the fleet, so the need for destroyers became more urgent, and the U.S. Navy Department urgently planned to build 270 more destroyers.

For a time, a large number of orders for warships were piled up on major shipyards, and a quarter of the orders for destroyers fell to the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company.

In fact, only a third of these orders were fulfilled before the Germans surrendered, and the rest were canceled by the U.S. government, which made the American arms dealers somewhat resentful that the Germans were too careless, and they lost a lot of business in vain.

However, except for Situ Nan, no one can think so far, and the current situation is that the major shipyards are busy with orders stimulated by the war.

The merger of Bethlehem Steel and California Steel also alarmed the U.S. government. The Admiralty was afraid that it would affect the production progress of the warships, and their representatives squatted at the Bird Point Shipyard and the Qianhe Shipyard every day, meticulously supervising the production of warships.

Not long after the merger of Bethlehem Steel and California Steel, the shipbuilding company below received a request from Navy Secretary Roosevelt to visit the Foreriver Shipyard in Massachusetts, and he inspected the warship production at the Bethlehem Shipyard on behalf of the Admiralty.

This was a big deal, and the whole of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company did not dare to be careless, for fear that something would happen and offend the God of Wealth from the Admiralty, and even the president of the head office, Eugene Forgedegrass, would come forward to greet him.

Originally, there was nothing to do with Situ Nan, but when I heard the name of Vice Admiral Roosevelt, I thought to myself, isn't this Franklin Roosevelt?

It looks like that guy was an executive at the Admiralty before he became president. It should be him! Situ Nan suddenly had the urge to meet this celebrity, so he also ran to join in the fun.

"Look, Mr. Roosevelt, in front of you is the Wicks-class destroyer built by our shipyard, and his hull is almost finished. After another two months of installation of the weapon, it will be ready to go into the water. ”

The group flocked to the slipway, and Eugene Forgedegrass said, pointing to a slender battleship with four chimneys on the slipway: "The Wicks-class destroyer has a full load displacement of 1,154 tons; It is 96 meters long, 9 meters wide, and has a draft of 2.6 meters. It can carry 149 crew members; On it there were 4 single-barreled guns of caliber 4 inches, and there were also two torpedo tubes.

The most important thing is that this destroyer runs very fast, up to 35 knots, and once the German submarine touches it, it will definitely not be able to escape. The two depth charge launchers on the Wicks-class destroyer were so quiet that the water would not be able to eat and walk around.

Free trade in the United States of America could not be allowed to be undermined by the brutal Germans, and we at the United Steel Company in Bethlehem are the greatest force in protecting the principle of free trade without interference. ”

Eugene Forgedegrass clenched his fist as if the German submarine had been blown over the Atlantic Ocean by his punch.

Eugene really deserves it

One of the finest arms dealers of World War II!

Like Eugene, all arms dealers are nimble and eloquent, and even cruel weapons have become weapons in their mouths to defend democracy and freedom.

Situ Nan stood by and watched Eugene brilliantly sell the warships in the dockyard, and felt very satisfied, this person at the helm of Bethlehem United Steel Company had finally chosen the right one.

After listening to Eugene's introduction, Roosevelt nodded and said, "Not bad." The progress of the shipyard is satisfactory. Hopefully, the Bethlehem shipyard will hurry up and produce more and better warships, and the United States of America needs more big businesses like the Bethlehem Company to defend our interests. ”

Shan Situ Nan's gaze couldn't help but fall from the steel jungle in the distance to the tall and strong figure of Franklin D. Roosevelt next to him.

In his previous life, Situ Nan, whose face was widely circulated all over the world, was not unfamiliar at all, although he looked much younger now, he recognized Situ Nan as soon as he met him.

This guy is such a natural politician! Looking at Franklin Roosevelt, who was talking to Eugene with a friendly face and a graceful face, Situ Nan thought for the first time.

Such a lofty goal as "defending the democratic freedoms of the United States" comes with just the mouth open? What a joke, except for the difficult years of the United States in the early years of the United States, after being pressed by the British for a period of time, what other country can threaten the democratic freedom of the United States?

Instead, the Americans, who shouted democracy and freedom, expanded from the thirteen eastern states on the Atlantic coast to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. So only democratic and free Americans threaten others, how can he be threatened?

When these warships sail out, it would be nice for the Germans not to cry, and they could still come and threaten the national freedom of the United States? But also, if you want to succeed in doing great things, you must have a loud banner, and you must first occupy the moral high ground, even if you want to do bad things, you must first wrap yourself in a beautiful coat.

It's like his predecessor Gatlin, who invented the machine gun, but no one cared about it in the United States, so he ran to England. He told the British that the Gatling gun was used to save more people, and the British used the machine gun to revolt against their natives in Africa.

Situ Nan thought to himself, no wonder this guy was able to become the president of the United States in a row with a crippled body, you must know that the people who can become the president of the United States are all actor-level politicians, black-bellied, ruthless, and lilies come as soon as they open their mouths, but they can manage a good reputation, and his agitation is often convincing, which can be described as a combination of the devil and angels.

Situ Nan had to admit that Franklin D. Roosevelt was one such person, albeit young, who had already shown this talent. He seems to have been born to do this.

Born in a political family, graduated from Harvard, is well-educated, eloquent and thinking are first-class, handsome and sunny, enthusiastic, and naturally affinity and leadership.

The most important thing is that this person can bring benefits to himself. Influenced by his uncle Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin was also keen to expand the U.S. navy, so he visited the Bethlehem shipyard shortly after taking office.

Situ Nan actually has a good impression of this person, although he has some disdain for the high-sounding in the other party's words, but he also knows that this is just a performance that must be performed by the other party's identity.

Don't you wear a mask yourself? At least, knowing the other party's future achievements, how can it be difficult to hate him, right?

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