Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ladies' Home Journal. He wrote an autobiography called The Americanization of Edward Bok, which Gordon had to read in school. His father Cary William, "a man of few words who once pitched semi-pro ball against Babe Ruth and Lou Geh-rig," left Curtis to run a shipyard in Camden. His uncle Curtis was a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice; his cousin Derek is now president of Harvard. Gordon, however, has declined the life of privilege, even though there are reminders of it all over town: several Camden landmarks were donated by his ancestors...
Christmas trees in America are public monuments too, symbols of communal celebration. In Bath, Me., the town's tree was placed atop a shipyard's 400-foot crane so it could be seen 30 miles away...
...their industry from bankruptcy by, among other means, eliminating up to 30,000 jobs over the next five years. Textile workers in France's Vosges region earlier staged an angry march through factory towns to protest the downfall of the once mighty Boussac textile empire. In Toulon and Hamburg, shipyard workers held demonstrations for government action to prevent further closures...
...doesn't give a fig for the shipyard. "I don't care about the money at all. I have put that shipyard up my nose ten times over." In cocaine, of course--Chet is what Raymond Chandler used to call a cokey, and Panama's prose comes to you through the paranoid fog of a rolled Benjamin Franklin...
During World War II, Gerschenkron worked as a flanger--a type of steelworker--in a California shipyard and said several years later, "I seriously considered staying in the shipyard. The work didn't follow you home at night into your leisure and your dreams...