Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1918 — Will Soon Have Sea Mastery. [ARTICLE]

Will Soon Have Sea Mastery.

E. G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, told the 500 guests of the Allentown (Pa.) chamber of commerce at its banquet recently that the submarine destroyers which the Bethlehem corporation will build for the government are more than all of the destroyers now in the world. Mr. Grace said he regarded the rapid construction of destroyers as the solution of the submarine menace. Bethlehem plants now employ 30,000, men as compared with *9,000 five years ago. Charles M. Schwab, who also spoke said that the pay roll of the Bethlehem plants is now $100,000,000 a year.— Iron Age.