Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shipyard that endeared Brooklyn to the U.S. Navy for 160 years is being closed. Already gone is the yard's Sands Street honky-tonk strip-where all real sailors prayed to go to when they died. Says Mrs. Martha Dimmler, Big Martha to Navymen of three wars who packed the Red Mill Bar: "It used to be that no place in the world had wilder, drunker, more wonderful sailors than...
Shea worked for Little and Brown publishing company for 20 years before World War II. During the war he worked in Four Rivers shipyard. He owned a tavern for several years before he came to work for Harvard seven years...
Died. Robert Alexander ("Steve") Cochran, 48, Hollywood heavy (The Big Operator, The Deadly Companions), a brawny onetime shipyard worker who played movieland mobsters and occasional heroes, except for a surprising leap into Italian avant-garde as the lovesick mechanic in Antonioni's IlGrido; of pulmonary edema, aboard his 33-ft. ketch Rogue, while sailing the Pacific from Acapulco to Costa Rica with a crew of three Mexican women, who drifted helplessly for ten days after his death until they were rescued by a U.S. fishing boat off the coast of Guatemala...
Money Makes Money. Cleveland's Art Modell, 41, a former shipyard worker, parlayed three growth businesses-television, supermarkets and professional sports-into a fortune. He put TV sets in supermarkets, then broadcast special programs for shoppers, and with the profits from commercials bought football's Cleveland Browns, now worth about $10,000,000. Among the many men who have made money from electronics, Greek-born Vessarios Chigas, 43, left a job at Sylvania, set up Boston's Microwave Associates; he now is worth at least a million. Charles Stein, 37, sensed a rich future in convenience foods...
...optimistic about the future of shipping than he is, now have $500 million worth of ships on order. Niarchos himself is building one new supertanker in France (not included in this deal), and he intends to devote more attention to his investments in aluminum, oil refining and the Piraeus shipyard...