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...biggest employer, more than 21,000 people will be thrown out of work with the closing of the Newport naval base because of lack of facilities to handle today's huge aircraft carriers. In Massachusetts, 6,700 people will lose their jobs when the venerable Boston naval shipyard is closed because of inadequate docking facilities. Equally hard hit by the cuts is Hunters Point shipyard in San Francisco. Of the 5,184 civilians slated to lose their jobs, many are members of minority groups who have been trained as welders, machinists, toolmakers and diemakers...
...major drain on Ogden was its Avondale Shipyards near New Orleans, which during the 1960s made unusually low bids to gain Navy-destroyer contracts and then saw costs soar. In 1969 the yard suffered a loss of $3.8 million. Ogden has since gathered the shipyard, its prosperous shipping business, which operates 20 vessels, and a stevedoring firm into a single transportation division, and last year the yard showed a small profit. Now Avondale expects to cash in big by helping to relieve the nation's growing fuel shortage. It is increasing production of liquefied-natural-gas tankers that sell...
...confident entrepreneur and ex-member of Israel's Parliament, was impressed, but the two moved cautiously, acquiring their first reefer in 1960 and building up an "intelligence network"-a staff of 40 researchers who keep track of world shipping needs and who have predicted temporary declines in shipyard activity. The moment to build at relatively low cost came in June 1963, and the partners ordered from Norway four reefers that were fast enough (21 knots) and big enough (400,000 cu. ft.) to deliver twice as much fruit each season as conventional ships. These "core class" reefers-designed...
...cent interest in Mississippi, while Brown voted to hold the line at 12. And he had been retained as a lawyer by Litton Industries about the same time he was helping persuade Senators to put the full financial credit of Mississippi behind construction of Litton's giant shipyard on the Gulf Coast...
...that measure, Anker Jorgensen enjoys abundant support. Jorgensen was orphaned at the age of four and grew up in poverty. He worked as a messenger boy and as an unskilled shipyard and factory worker; later he became a spokesman for warehouse workers and a union leader. A member of the Folketing since 1964, Jorgensen has never held a Cabinet post. But his proletarian background should calm the worries of Danish workers and Socialists over the EEC vote, which he supported...