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Thirteen months ago the 15 nonoperating unions began seeking a blanket 20? an hour raise on the grounds that they were suffering under a "gross inequity" in wages (typical inequity: the average railroad employe gets 84? an hour; a shipyard worker...
Seven unhappy shipyard workers huddled on a raft near Portland, Ore., tired, hungry and cold. They were down to two days' chocolate rations. Within yoo-hoo distance floated the Coast Guard, sternly refusing them food, blankets, sympathy...
...Navy had the task of turning out these clumsy, homely, efficient invasion boats by the thousands. It had to be done in a tearing hurry with the greatest possible secrecy. And it had to be superimposed on the regular shipbuilding program, which already had existing shipyard facilities fully occupied...
Cargill's architect of the unconventional, who turned the dreamy meadowlands into an up-to-the-minute shipyard (for around $1,000,000) is a practical doer named Chris Jensen, 46. He joined Cargill ten years ago in a characteristically Cargill...
...left-handed thinking and high grain-shipping rates shoehorned it into the boat business in 1937. Smart, mathematics-minded Cargill president, John H. MacMillan Jr., designed his own unconventional low-cost "articulated unit" barge vessel, that looked like four boxes hooked together with springs and cables. When old-line shipyards refused to have anything to do with such a crazy thing, Chris Jensen turned out the unit in an improvised shipyard beside the Cargill grain elevators in Albany, N.Y. Only grief it ever met was a storm on Lake Michigan, which sank it in 60 feet of water. Chris Jensen...