Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jacked up upon the ways of the great naval shipyard at Birkenhead, a new British battleship, said to be the heaviest and most powerful in the world, awaited only its christening as H.M. SS. Rodney, before slipping into the eternal brine...
Then it was April, 1918, and the U-boats were sinking about 1,000,000 tons of Allied shipping per month?Mr. Schwab raced across the country from one shipyard to another. Tons of shipping slid completed from the ways...
Last week Captain Nat announced that he had sold his shipyard, was retiring. Newspaper men in England rushed to Sir Thomas Lipton with the news, asked him if he would challenge for the America's Cup again now that his nemesis had departed from the seas. Said Sir Thomas: "I wonder if he really has retired for good...
Kiel workmen refused to increase their working day by one hour. Shipyard owners shut down. The lock-out affected...
...atmosphere and attitude of both book and author can be summed up in one of Caleb's own speeches; and if in literature, as in shipbuilding, there were more thorough, sincere productions of this sort, more shipyard and less "gingerbread an paint", there would likewise be less hue and cry about the decadence of American letters. "Well, 'Glory', ole girl . . . they went an' busted up the shipyard; they went an' filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman...