Sentence examples for fleet construction from inspiring English sources

The incomplete hulls of and Akagi were thus selected for completion as the two large carriers under the 1924 fleet construction program.

Economists estimate the Somozas owned about 20% of the country's arable land, as well as sugar mills, banks, credit companies, cattle ranches, fishing fleets, construction companies, florists and other businesses.

And with the shuttle fleet grounded, construction on the space station is on hold.

Here, a squat New Zealander named Ed Mumm keeps a fleet of construction-grade excavators and bulldozers and, in defiance of all common sense, allows pretty much anyone (for a fee, naturally) to play with them after only a few minutes of training.

The company has stumbled over the past year, but it is working on better managing its global operations while modernizing its fleet and building up its deepwater construction capabilities.

The supply of ships is inelastic; it takes around two to three years between ordering a new vessel and its launch so the response to shifts in demand is slow and conditions can change while additions to the fleet are under construction.

The model incorporates costs relative to the network construction, fleet acquisition, train operation, rolling stock and personnel management.

In June 1942, shortly after the Navy's public acknowledgment of the sinking, workers at the Quincy shipyard, where the ship had been built twenty-one yearlierrlier, cabled Navy Secretary Frank Knox and proposed a change in the name of one of the new Essex-class fleet carriers currently under construction there to Lexington (from Cabot).

NASA is making steady progress toward returning its shuttle fleet to flight so that construction of the International Space Station can resume, the NASA administrator, Sean O'Keefe, said on Friday.

Arnold lost both battles, but his construction of a fleet of tiny vessels, mostly gondolas (gundalows) and galleys, had forced the British to build a larger fleet and hence delayed their attack on Fort Ticonderoga until the following spring.

Energy specialists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and elsewhere have said that construction of a fleet of industrial-scale demonstration projects that might be able to capture and bury the climate-changing gas should be getting under way immediately if there is to be any chance, even by 2020 or so, of meaningfully curbing emissions.