Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of my life from childhood on has been spent moving, traveling, changing places, knowing people in one school, in one town or in one group, or on one ship a little while, but soon never seeing most of them again," Langston Hughes writes in I Wonder as I Wander. The book, which he calls an autobiographical journey, describes Hughes' travellings from...
...Compass Island is a 17,600-ton converted merchantman, commanded by James A. Dare. Without reference to any shore-based aids, the Ship's Inertial Navigational System (SINS), designed by M.I.T.'s Dr. Charles S. Draper, will furnish continuous position reports, the location of true north and the ship's speed. Essentially a superrefined gyroscopic system, SINS is self-correcting and will be continuously checked for accuracy against a star-tracker...
...bulk of the SINS equipment is housed in a 67-ton, temperature-controlled navigational tower that looms just forward of the superstructure in the most rigid part of the ship. To protect the instruments from as much motion as possible, the Compass Island is equipped with wing-shaped gyrofins, which cut down roll from 7½° to a barely perceptible .4°. Among the ship's other refinements: a giant, airfoil-shaped sonar dome beneath the keel that will measure ship's speed (and which has already earned the nickname "droop snoot...
...hottest shares on the New York Stock Exchange last week were the shares of U.S. shipbuilders. New York Shipbuilding Corp. jumped from 36 to 54⅞ in two trading days; Newport News closed the week at 79¼, or 29¼ points above its 1956 low. American Ship Building rose from 97¾ to 102. The greatest shipbuilding boom in the world's peacetime history had finally reached...
...business away from U.S. yards in favor of low-cost foreign builders, have kept the worldwide boom from reaching the U.S. sooner. But now that foreign shipyards have reached their capacity, the shippers have nowhere else to go. Two years ago, not a single U.S. shipyard had a new ship-construction contract; today 58 tankers and cargo ships are being built and 23 more are on order. The New York Shipbuilding Corp. has $70 million worth of 1956 orders for tankers. Newport News has a quarter-billion-dollar backlog of orders. Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., biggest...