Word: shipyarders
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...times for a bomb scare," observes one laconic citizen. Most pubs downtown now close at 6 for lack of business. The restaurants and movies are largely empty. People tend to lock themselves up in the ghettos that mark the residents as Protestant, Catholic or Jewish. "Like everyone else," says Shipyard Worker John Bleakley, "we stay at home at night with our own kind and don't answer the door...
...orders for 34.5 million tons of ships, almost five times as much as the country in second place, Sweden; the U.S. has orders for only 2.7 million tons. To examine Japan's success, Nickel visited one of the world's most advanced yards, the Nippon Kokan Shipyard at Tsu in central Japan, which builds vessels of up to 250,000 tons. His report...
...economics of this process are impressive. Shipyard Manager Akira Takeuchi says materials and interest on loans add up to 80% of the yard's total production costs; labor costs account for 20%. In Western yards, labor costs run as high as 30% or more...
...Nippon Kokan will pay the first $3.30 of his daily hotel bill. Medical care for workers and their families is almost totally company financed; an appendectomy costs about $2. Workers can use the company gym and playing field and can shop in the company-operated discount store. Most important, shipyard employees are virtually assured of a job until retirement, and then receive a one-lump severance payment, averaging $20,000 for 30 years' service...
...sounded like a man who had seen light at the end of a tunnel. Profits of the troubled conglomerate in 1972, he confidently predicted, would increase substantially over their lackluster showing of $50 million in 1971, and one reason for the gain would be Litton's $ 130 million shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Ash calls the ultramodern facility, opened about two years ago, "a national asset that will make U.S. shipbuilding competitive in world markets...