Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money for the new ships was among the first appropriations the Dutch made from the $100 million loan (at 1½% interest) they recently got from Wall Street bankers. Orders were placed for ten C-3 type cargo vessels of 10,000 tons each, from the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., and 20 small coastal ships from the Albina Engine & Machine Works, at Portland, Ore. Shipping men estimated the total cost at $50 million-almost twice as much as it would have cost to build the ships in Dutch yards before...
...border, trapping some thousands of Germans in the Black Forest. The French also reached Lake Constance, not long after four boatloads of guilt-stricken Nazis had fled to the eastern end of the lake, where they could duck into the Alpine bastion. A few frantic latecomers, who reached the dock just as the last boat was pulling out, jumped into the water and tried to swim after...
...Court declared unconstitutional three minor acts of the Government. If the Court's decision stood and set a precedent, the military regime (no lover of constitutions) might fall or be forced to change its character. Argentines seemed to hope so. Twenty thousand packing-plant workers went on strike. Dock workers struck, demanding release of political prisoners. Nearly 500 Buenos Aires lawyers gathered around the Palace of Justice to cheer the Court's resurgence...
With a notable lack of fuss, the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. last week launched Hull No. 439. To the U.S. Navy, Hull No. 439 was the aircraft carrier Midway, biggest warship in the world...
Newport News did build good ships. Its first, the tug Alvah H. Clark, still chuffs up & down the James River, helped shepherd the Midway (see cut) from the dry dock in which it was built to the outfitting pier downstream. But the yard could not show a profit until Ferguson joined the company, after Huntington died and the yard had passed to his heirs...