Word: brooklyns
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...Brooklyn Navy Yard, its lineage goes back to 1637. It was commanded between 1841 and 1843 by none other than Captain Matthew Perry. It fitted out the original Monitor during the Civil War; built the mighty U.S.S. Missouri for service in World War II; at one time employed some 71,000 persons; and even now, as an anachronism, provides jobs...
Four of the eleven U.S. Government shipyards are on the list. McNamara's choices were based on a slide-rule cost-performance analysis that indicated that, "in summary, Philadelphia stands out as the single best shipyard to retain under all factors evaluated, while Portsmouth and New York [Brooklyn] rate lowest as the shipyards rating retention." Next to Philadelphia, the analysis showed that Boston ranked as "most desirable to retain because of its proximity to the North Atlantic sailing routes and to ships home-ported in the area; and because [its elimination] produces the smallest savings...
...York's Francis Cardinal Spellman has made no secret of his preference for the traditional way. But now many churches in his archdiocese have a lay commentator to lead the congregation in reciting the Gloria, Creed and other prayers in English. In the equally conservative diocese of Brooklyn, staid Irish and Italian churches have been conducting midweek rehearsals and demonstration Masses to accustom their flocks to the prayers and hymns...
...source of all this bustle is Walter Peter Marshall. 63, the company's $141,000-a-year president. A Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-schooled accountant who is one-eighth Cherokee, Marshall got into communications accidentally by answering a help-wanted ad by All America Cables in the mistaken belief that it manufactured cables rather than sent them. After working up to executive vice president of Postal Telegraph, he came to Western Union in the 1943 merger that gave W.U. a monopoly on domestic telegraph business. When he became president in 1948, Western Union looked ready for the undertaker. With...
This week the show profiled one of Saudek's added starters, Mary S. McDowell, a Brooklyn schoolteacher who lost her job in 1917 because she refused to sign a loyalty oath or do Red Cross work. She was a Quaker and a pacifist and she knew what she believed, even though her hope for marriage had ended when a boy who loved her died in France. Of the two plays so far, this one was somewhat the better, largely because Rosemary Harris was so gently formidable as an embodiment of unbreakable principle...