A center for this industry in Richmond, California, was the site of the  first Permanente Foundation hospital.
During World War I, Hog Island became the largest center for this industry in the world. Dwight Eisenhower called Andrew Higgins, a leader of this industry, "the man who won the war." A center for this industry in Richmond, California, was the site of the  first Permanente Foundation hospital. Henry Kaiser used prefabrication and assembly-line methods to achieve enormous productivity in this industry. During World War II, this industry mass-produced products using steel that embrittled at low temperatures, causing some of those products to literally snap in half; the "Victory" model produced by this industry improved on the design flaws of those "Liberty" products. For 10 points, what industry produced destroyers and aircraft carriers during World War II?
During World War I, Hog Island became the largest center for this industry in the world.
shipbuilding [accept equivalents mentioning the manufacture of ships or boats or other equivalents]