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JAPANESE IMPORTS are forcing shutdown of some U.S. mills, complain U.S. textilemen, who are stepping up campaign for stiffer tariffs. Both New England's Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. and Bates Manufacturing Co. are extending vacation shutdowns one week because of increasing Japanese competition, while South Carolina's small Camperdown Mills is closing down completely "in the face of Japanese competition." Japanese, however, are acting to curb exports themselves...
...career was only beginning when he reached the island of Timor 41 days later. A popular hero on his return to London, after "a voyage of the most extraordinary nature that ever happened in the world," he sailed again to the South Seas, fought in the battle of Camperdown, was driven off his ship in the mutiny at the Nore in 1797. In 1806 Bligh was made governor of New South Wales, was deposed in a queer, involved insurrection two years later. At this point Dr. Mackaness records his gravest charge against his hero. After devoting twelve pages...
...when the underpaid, scurvy-ridden crews off Spithead and off the Nore turned on their officers. That came in the British Navy's most glorious period. Nelson had just helped win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Six months after the mutiny Admiral Duncan beat the Dutch at Camperdown...
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