Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington (9). Boeing's loss of the TFX fighter-aircraft contract and the state's loss of shipyard work to the East have irked both management and labor, could be just enough to tip the state to Goldwater...
...sailed to victory in the 1960 Olympics. Hunt showed up at the world championship to try out his latest 5.5, Chaje II, built by Finnish Shipbuilder Jussi Nemes. The two planned to race her together. But Nemes had to rush home at the last minute-his shipyard had burned to the ground-and he asked Hunt to take over...
...trade of $141 billion, but it is significant enough to individual Western firms. Richard Thomas & Baldwins, Ltd., Britain's last remaining nationalized steelmaker, is being helped in a period of soft demand by a $2.8 million order that Red China placed last week. West Germany's Howaldt shipyard, which lately has been working below capacity, will be busy until 1966 because last week it won a $63 million contract to build eight Soviet trawlers...
Massachusetts Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy thought he had a fine idea. Why not move the U.S.S. Constitution-"Old Ironsides"-from its berth at Boston Naval Shipyard's Pier 1 to New York next summer so that millions visiting the World's Fair could see the famed frigate...
...Palmer, Portsmouth yard commander, testified that all inspection reports seemed "satisfactory." Angered,Vice Admiral Bernard L. Austin, presiding over the board of inquiry, snapped: "There is a difference between 'satisfactory' and 'satisfactory without a shadow of a doubt.' " Palmer agreed and admitted that his shipyard sometimes "took on new jobs without adequate lead time, and without knowledge of availability of material, and underestimated work time." That, he agreed, might be called "unsatisfactory...