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Shortly before the New Hampshire primary, Ford said that he intended to retain the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which the Defense Department had threatened to close. He announced to hard-pressed New England fishermen that he would fight to extend the territorial limit from twelve miles to 200 miles. He appointed New Hampshire's attorney general, Warren Rudman, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Rudman comes from Nashua, a city crucial to Ford's victory...
...plans would require the removal of 300 million cu. yds., a stupendous undertaking even with today's more advanced earth-moving equipment. The Egyptians are nonetheless confident. There is even some talk that the colossal bronze statue of Lesseps, torn to pieces and dumped in a Port Said shipyard at the time of the 1956 British-French-Israeli seizure of Suez, may be cemented together again and placed on a pedestal...
Near Los Angeles, a 20-sq.-mi. depression has formed around the Wilmington oilfield after 35 years of exploitation. At the center of the great bowl lies the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, where a 29-ft. decline in the land level has forced the Navy, oil companies and others to build flood-control dikes. Besides twisting railroad tracks, crushing oil-well casings and undermining buildings, the slumping of the ground has also triggered small earthquakes. To jack up the sunken terrain, the city of Long Beach has been forcing water back into the ground...
...with prices. The present economic climate, with inflation approaching 20%, is more serious than anything the country has faced since the 1930s. But it still seems to be something better understood by economists and merchant bankers than by the man in the street. As Jimmy Buchanan, a Scottish shipyard worker observes: "Aye, you can read about it, but you can't feel it much...
...eventually tie up, hoping for a close glimpse of the post-series celebration. Some were members of the successful syndicate, or small-time contributors to the effort who wanted to get in on the celebrating they knew would come as soon as the Courageous was towed in to the shipyard...