Word: bremerton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prefacing its editorial with the statement, "For several weeks now the Review has been torn between a normal desire to obey an unofficial Government censorship and what we feel deeply to be a solemn duty to our readers," the Review announced that the British battleship Warspite was in the Bremerton Navy Yard near Seattle for repairs. The Review's reasons...
...Bremerton, Wash...
...Roosevelt had an illustration: in shipbuilding Bremerton (Wash.), 2,500 children of newly employed workers have no schools, no local laws authorize new ones to be built. More alarming was the story of Vice President Peter Flynn of C. I. O.'s Industrial Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America. He claimed that many defense workers are turning down overtime work because it costs them so much time and energy to commute to overcrowded cities where they work. He may have been thinking of Bath (Me.) Iron Wofks (destroyers), to which workers are commuting over a 30-60-mile radius...
...years Tacoma citizens dreamed of a bridge across the Narrows. It would cut out the old, slow ferry, bring the Navy Yard at Bremerton closer. It would help accomplish what Washingtonians talk of doing-open up the spectacular, thinly settled Olympic Peninsula. Last July Tacoma got its bridge-a slender, soaring suspension bridge,* rising 190 feet above the water, built in two years at a cost of $6,400,000 in Federal funds...
...clock one morning last week a bomb burst over Seattle's water front. By the dawn's early light, rowboats scurried into Elliott Bay. Some anchored. Others rowed around. For four hours, ferryboats plying between Seattle and Bremerton had to detour to avoid the milling fleet. It was the grand finale of the Ben Paris Salmon Derby, oldest and biggest of the Pacific Northwest's latest sport craze...