Word: drydocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary had been the sleekest ornament in the luxury passenger service seemed almost like another age. For all the long war years the Mary's career had been grim and dedicated. But last week her widow's weeds were gone. After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial...
...Authorized the Secretary of the Navy to transfer 271 naval vessels, with necessary drydock, to China...
...Garson a $74 silver cigaret box. Another thought the wife of F.D.R.'s Chief of Staff William D. Leahy rated a $2,516.75 jeweled bracelet. Eleanor Roosevelt, for launching a light carrier, was given a tray, a photo album and warstamp corsage, altogether worth $553.50. The Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. at Chester, Pa., honored 252 women most handsomely; $750 was the least it ever spent on any one of them...
...super-seniority" - meaning that an honorably discharged veteran is entitled to his old job, or a similar one, with his old company for at least a year, even though it means firing an employe with greater seniority. Thus, when Welder Fishgold was laid off from Brooklyn's Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. for ten days, while nonveterans with more seniority were kept on (TIME, June 18), Selective Service backed him in the first court test of super-seniority...
...such thing, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If this version of super-seniority is carried out, the Union predicted, employes in many a shipyard and U.S. plant, including World War I veterans, will have to be fired to make way for veterans. Example: the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pa. has 19,000 former employes in service. Yet cutbacks have shrunk its payroll down to only 7,000 workers, some with 20 years' seniority...