Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., at Kearny, N. J., which the Navy seized when management refused a National Defense Mediation Board's recommendation that the company grant a shipyard workers' union a "maintenance of membership" contract (TIME, Aug. 18). The plant was temporarily operating last week under the Board's original proposal. For a Canadian answer to the defense strike problem...
...after day. To avoid further delay the company offered the yard to the Government to run as it liked. The President, well aware of Federal's splendid production record, hesitated. Conferences got nowhere. And after 16 days of idleness in the East Coast's fourth largest private shipyard, Mr. Roosevelt told the Navy to take over...
...beloved duty: manning the barricades. The Neva's left bank, scene of bloodshed in two Russian revolutions, was changed to a training ground, where men and boys hurriedly boned up on grenade-throwing and bayonet-thrusting. On the Neva's right bank, across from the Winter Palace, shipyard and metal workers, some of whom had stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, staged a mock battle. Every street got its barrier. In the factories men worked with guns beside them...
British Press Service announced that "Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten* . . . has come to the United States to take command of the British aircraft carrier Illustrious and to supervise her repairs in an undisclosed American shipyard...
...several hundred thousand people-and unquestionably several dozen Nazi agents-have known that the Illustrious, which had her flight deck bombed to ribbons when taking a convoy through the Mediterranean (TIME, Jan. 27, 1941), had come over to be patched up. They also knew the name of the "undisclosed shipyard" where she was being repaired, and other details...