Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With this kind of brashness, Kennedy fought for and won control of a Boston bank, made himself bank president at 25, and married Mayor John ("Honey") Fitzgerald's daughter Rose. When World War I broke out, Kennedy went to work for Bethlehem Shipyard in Boston as assistant manager, helped the yard break one production record after another. Chief thorn in his side was another ambitious young man, Navy Assistant Secretary Franklin Roosevelt, who drove such a hard bargain that he occasionally reduced Kennedy to tears, and once, when Kennedy refused to deliver two battleships to Argentina until payment...
Four of the eleven U.S. Government shipyards are on the list. McNamara's choices were based on a slide-rule cost-performance analysis that indicated that, "in summary, Philadelphia stands out as the single best shipyard to retain under all factors evaluated, while Portsmouth and New York [Brooklyn] rate lowest as the shipyards rating retention." Next to Philadelphia, the analysis showed that Boston ranked as "most desirable to retain because of its proximity to the North Atlantic sailing routes and to ships home-ported in the area; and because [its elimination] produces the smallest savings...
Problem of History. McNamara's greatest public relations problem was in doing away with a fair number of installations that are, if nothing else, steeped in history. One was the Portsmouth, N.H., naval shipyard, which has been making American warships since the days of John Paul Jones. Since Portsmouth (pop. 27,800) depends almost entirely on the economic base provided by the shipyard (7,300 employees, an annual payroll of $61.6 million), McNamara put forth a ten-year phase-out schedule for the installation...
...Colonial chain offers chairs and tables for weary shoppers to rest beside the soft-drink dispensers. Stores are also staying open longer. Kroger two weeks ago started doing business on Sundays in Ohio, and Grand Union in Norfolk stays open 24 hours daily to accommodate the round-the-clock shipyard shifts...
...orders may reach as high as $8 billion in the next five years, and in Washington the company was awarded a $237 million contract to build the Centaur mooncraft. In Quincy, Mass., it laid the keel for the first vessel-an attack submarine-that it will build in the shipyard it bought last January from Bethlehem Steel. In Groton, Conn., General Dynamics launched its first civilian submarine, a research sub for the University of Pennsylvania. It also broke ground for a lime-processing plant in Detroit and delivered a 160-passenger CL-44 turboprop plane to Icelandic Airlines. Altogether, General...