Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech was a bitter pill for the millions of British miners, railwaymen, shipyard and textile workers and others who have been clamoring for higher wages. It was bitter, too, for Trades Union Congress leaders. T.U.C. men would not swallow the dose without angry protests when they met Attlee and his cabinet this week; some were already muttering that they would not be able to hold the rank & file in line...
Gleam. Texas Eastern had begun as a gleam in the eyes of E. Holley Poe, an Oklahoma-born gas consultant; Everette Lee De Golyer, Texas' famed oil geologist ; Charles I. Francis, a Houston lawyer, and Houston's shipyard-building brothers, George and Herman Brown (TIME, Feb. 24). They advanced some $250,000 (later repaid by the company) in the early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent...
...true "Glasgow weather," some 30,000 Glaswegians gathered one day last week at the rain-drenched, mist-shrouded shipyard of John Brown & Co. There they cheered as Princess Elizabeth, in a new green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
...weeks ago, a Navy general court-martial at Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard began the trial of stocky Chief Signalman Harold E. Hirshberg, 29, a regular Navy man and a section leader in several Japanese prison camps after his capture at Corregidor. Chief Hirshberg was charged with hitting six men in his charge, and of informing against three who planned to escape. One of the three had been tortured to death by the Japanese...
...work driving a railway speeder in the lumber woods. For eight years he left the logging camps only once in every four months to see his wife Christine and his young son. When the war began, he got a $300-a-month welder's job in a shipyard, but Selective Service ordered him back to the woods for the duration...