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...destruction-bent Stettiners. Out of the intense anti-Soviet feeling that floods Poland today came a focus for their violence: Stettin's Soviet consulate. Soon the mob had broken into that building, wrecked and looted its contents. Only when the Stettin Communist Party committee called in sober-minded shipyard workers, students and local militiamen were the rioters brought to order...
High labor and construction costs, which in the past have taken business away from U.S. yards in favor of low-cost foreign builders, have kept the worldwide boom from reaching the U.S. sooner. But now that foreign shipyards have reached their capacity, the shippers have nowhere else to go. Two years ago, not a single U.S. shipyard had a new ship-construction contract; today 58 tankers and cargo ships are being built and 23 more are on order. The New York Shipbuilding Corp. has $70 million worth of 1956 orders for tankers. Newport News has a quarter-billion-dollar backlog...
World's Biggest. Like many another U.S. shipyard, Ingalls is not equipped to build the large ships now most urgently in demand, but it is already benefiting from the rush of orders to the larger eastern yards. "We are not going after the vessels of 60,000 tons and up," says Ingalls' President Monro Lanier. "But the demand for ships of that size is a stimulus that takes up market space in larger yards, leaving smaller ships for yards of less capacity." Although many U.S. yards, especially in the West, have not yet felt the initial boom, shipyards...
...night school, a movie house, a public library, a daily newspaper, a radio station. Today, Tecuala boasts a population of 13,000 v. 1,000 only five years ago, and industry is arriving-an ice plant, two shoe factories, two ice-cream plants, two carpentry shops, a small shipyard on a nearby island. Said Tecuala's proud mayor: "Literally, I have witnessed our emergence from the dark ages into an age of light...
...already the challenges of the new age were being met. In late 1950, in a storage shack nicknamed "Siberia" in a shipyard in Groton, Conn., Nautilus began to take shape under the intense, sometimes ruthless direction of Captain Hyman Rickover. Some of the salt-encrusted admirals had sneered at Rickover's folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant...