Word: shipyard
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...next few years Hart Crane got his education: a queer mixture of little magazines, Greenwich Village society and odd jobs. He worked brief spells in a munitions factory, a shipyard, a newspaper office. When he was jobless or in financial straits, which was most of the time, friends lent him money and put him up. A prickly guest, he was always quick to take offense...
...that they would not allow the shipping abroad of 16-in. guns, a U. S. specialty, nor may Navy proving grounds be used to test the quality of guns or armor plate. But 15-in. guns, big as those on H. M. S. Hood would be quite all right. Shipyard rumors last week gave Bethlehem the contract. Within 18 months Comrade Orlov may set himself the gigantic task of making order out of a series of shipments that will include everything from turrets, barbettes, gears, pistons, armor plates, electric hoists, turbines, boilers, stanchions, steampipes, searchlights, smokestacks to a davit...
...Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles he: "I've been hurrying ever since." Dane Knudsen's first U. S. job was in a Morris Heights, N. Y. shipyard, as reamer and riveter at $1.75 per day. Evenings he spent in his boarding house, improving his English by listening to the landlady's children. When the shipyard shut down for the winter, he moved on to a job repairing locomotive boilers in the Erie R. R. shops...
...City of Ships." There in 1607 was launched the first ship built in North America. There Jonathan Philbrook gained immortality by building the first schooner. There for more than a century was the centre of the U. S. shipbuilding industry. But in Bath today there is only one active shipyard-the famed Bath Iron Works. Hitherto a tightly-held little company, Bath Iron Works last week became a publicly-owned corporation. A banking group headed by Manhattan's Hemphill, Noyes & Co. offered 50,000 shares of new Bath Iron Works stock together with 144,000 shares previously outstanding...
...married, fathered two children, was widowed and married again at the age of 42. Not until the Sons of Liberty grew strong in the 1760's did he find an outlet for his talents. Democratic, at ease with commoners, he was at home in the turbulent groups of shipyard workers, mechanics, laborers, that were viewed with distrust by most men of his class...