Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Litton has been fighting for that contract for three long years. The company first persuaded the Mississippi legislature to vote a controversial $130 million tax-exempt bond issue to build the most modern shipyard in the country. Litton then contracted to lease the facility from the state for 30 years, paying enough to retire the bonds. The yard uses speedy, cost-cutting "modular" techniques developed by the Japanese; sections of ships are built separately, swung into place and welded together. Litton's hopes for defense work were hardly dampened by the fact that Mississippi's Senator John Stennis...
Rhode Island where his Father works in a shipyard, it was a conscious choice; maybe an adventure in the old romantic sense. But the choice part is gone now, and Roger's marginality is more or less permanent. Even if he wanted to work-to return to the mental place where people get up at 7:30 and go off and do things all day and eat well and have "homes" and other attachments-he probably could not do it. Too much water over the dam. Too many ways of being that he has lost, and cannot understand...
...instructors in the National Guard are officers. The officers are mostly working-class men, who have little direct contact with street demonstrators. In fact, the lab technicians, shipyard workers and garbage men, who make up the officer corps of the Guard units are part of the middle American class that finds demonstrators as destructive of American society as Communists. They resent students, who they feel make up the mass of street protestors. In their instructions about riots they clearly display their dislike, and thus encourage a dangerous sentiment among...
...suspends the Law of Gravitation at the first turn on the Mystic River Bridge. Car after car goes shooting into the air over the Boston Naval Shipyard...