Word: shipyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seattle, an order to recondition three mothball Victory ships was the biggest contract Puget Sound shipbuilders had seen in several years. Shipyard employment has dropped from a wartime peak of 90,000 in Seattle alone to a handful of 2,600 workers in the whole state of Washington. Along the Gulf Coast, Pascagoula's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. was the only yard with new construction under way last week. And Ingalls is building just one ship: an experimental model of a highspeed (18½ knots) cargo steamer which the Maritime Board hopes to use as a prototype for future cargo...
Battened Hatches. In all the U.S., on May 1, only 43,500 private shipyard workers were employed, compared to 75,000 last year, and 1,397,700 during the busiest days of World War II. Last month the shipbuilding industry received just one new order-a ferry for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...
...long and weighty report to show that countless industrial workers have hearing defects, and that many result from noisy working conditions. Such defects, Hargrave argues, reduce efficiency, impair health and affect the workers' home life. The source of his data: 2,549 workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard (now closed) whose cornmandant had invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing had no trouble with common shop talk...
...seamen and shipyard workers have become cab drivers, waiters, elevator operators, janitors, trolley conductors, house painters. During the Christmas rush, a former ship captain worked in a department store as a detective...
...once, Germany's great wounded port stirred to new life and spirit. Some 65,000 shipyard workers might get jobs. Ship operators snapped out of their sulks, began buying old freighters and drafting blueprints for new ones. First construction job: Hamburg Orient Line ordered six small freighters for Middle East runs...