At the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. yard on the muddy "Singing River" at Pascagoula, Miss., where 11,000 men & women worked at 1943's hectic peak, only 8,000 worked this week. Within a year the last of the 73 big C-3 freighters for the United States Maritime Commission, and the special type craft for the Navy would be ready for delivery, and Ingalls' war work would be near its end. All this suited Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. just fine.
The reason for their satisfaction at the end of war work was that shrewd, cantankerous Robert Ingersoll...
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