Word: shipyard
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...this time the fat was in the fire. Communist Willie Gallacher raised the "Scots Wha Hae" cry* of Scottish nationalism. M.P. Neil MacLean blamed "some confounded fool in the Admiralty" for allowing a famous shipyard to remain idle because of a mistaken idea that it had no engine shop...
...normally turbulent Clyde-side, where strikes and upheavals resulted in the granting of then-revolutionary trade-union rights in the midst of World War I, there is now political quiet. The 100%-profits tax, making employers relatively generous with wages, leaves firebrands little besides absentee ownership and shipyard discipline to protest about. For their part, shipyard owners complain about "absenteeism"-workers occasionally take a day off just for the hell...
...Commission's 105-day schedule for building Liberty Ships. Bethlehem-Fairfield Yard at Baltimore announced a 75-day goal. The West Coast's hurry-up man, Henry J. Kaiser, entrepreneur, builder of dams, and now of ships, claimed a record of 81 days at iris Portland, Ore. shipyard...
...genius for getting action at weak spots, Sam Robinson brought the mam moth construction program-biggest ever undertaken-to the point where every major shipyard, except those deliberately set aside for naval repair work, was building some kind of Navy craft...
...Norway, whose shipyard and factory workers are masters of the invisible slowdown, hate erupted like hot lava when Vidkun Quisling was installed as puppet Premier. Ready for action stood German troops with fixed bayonets, German tanks with troops inside. Nevertheless, two railway stations and the National Theater in Oslo were set on fire, bombs were tossed into a university building and into the House of Parliament. When arch-quisling Quisling stepped toward a balcony to receive the crowd's plaudits, the searchlights went out. Someone had cut the cables. Thirty-three friends of King Haakon were taken as hostages...