Word: shipyarders
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...take over the family firm. Then, in 1935, he struck out on his own: his father, then 72, seemed unwilling to retire -ever. Bergesen bought a 14,000-ton tanker and put it into a long term charter. Using the ship as collateral, he later purchased a faltering shipyard in Stavanger at a bargain price, installed oversized construction docks, then cashed in handsomely after World War II as one of the few European builders who could handle the demand for 17,000-ton jumbo tankers. He still builds for other operators as well...
...Beirut port, the cement industry, a gambling casino and a metalworks; in all, it employed 43,000 persons who with their dependents comprise a tenth of the country's population. Abroad, Intra's twelve branches spread from New York to Nigeria, its holdings from a French shipyard to a 27-story office skyscraper on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...made exactly to the employees' liking, because the number of sausages in factory-canteen sandwiches was cut from two to one, or because three brewery workers were fired for guzzling more than their traditional two free pints of beer on the job. A Bristol shipyard was struck for three weeks when boilermakers and shipwrights clashed over who should trace a pencil line around a plastic pattern. Almost every skilled craft worker in Britain still demands and gets a "mate" to carry his tools and do his lifting and fetching for him-a medieval hangover from the guild apprentice system...
...talk of old times at Ozuki, the Divine Wind two decades later was barely a zephyr. Eying a row of modern U.S. trainers on the familiar runway, Shipyard Salesman Tatsuo Suzuki, 43, wished that "our planes had been as good as these in those days." Ah, rasped Hotel Manager Jumpei Watanabe, "if our planes had been this good, we wouldn't be here...
...long been predominantly Negro. Built in 1942 for workers at a nearby shipyard, Marin City was abandoned at war's end by most of its white population. The Negroes who remained soon found themselves isolated by both geography and discrimination. Those who ventured elsewhere in Marin County were often asked by sheriff's deputies: "What are you doing out of Marin City?" Even today, the town has no restaurants or bars, and its many school dropouts find little else to do but hang around Marin City's lone, ramshackle variety store. The unemployment rate has climbed...