Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SINCE early in 1970, U.S. intelligence experts have been particularly interested in satellite photos of a ship with an exceptionally long keel being constructed at the big Soviet naval shipyard in the Black Sea port of Nikolayev. In recent months, as the hull began to take shape, the photos disclosed a number of significant details-large shafts for elevators, huge fuel tanks, a flattop deck. Last week some Defense Department experts were finally willing to make a striking prediction: the Soviet navy, which for years scorned U.S. attack carriers as "floating coffins" and "sitting ducks," is now building...
ABOUT 300 shipyard workers, along with their wives and children, were visiting the vessel once known as the Queen Elizabeth, which was anchored just outside Hong Kong's busy harbor. Suddenly the ship caught fire. Most of those aboard escaped without injury while fireboats fought the rapidly spreading blaze. Next day, with her upper decks collapsed and her massive steel hull buckled like so much soggy cardboard, the ship, still burning, keeled over. The Queen had died...
...missed a scheduled pay raise because of the freeze. While the President was quoting Mrs. Jones, she was listening to another speech: George Krajewski was proposing marriage to her in front of the TV set, which was turned off. Mrs. Jones accepted. Krajewski, a foreman at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, gave her a diamond ring midway through the President's peroration, and she never heard herself quoted. "I told the President I would be losing about $100 a month because of the freeze," she said later. "But I am willing to sacrifice that...
...well into middle age. What distinguishes him from the other super sealords is the incredible pace at which he has expanded his fleet. With a personal fortune estimated by his business associates at anywhere from $300 million to $800 million, Pao does not ever have to go near a shipyard again. Yet he shows no sign of relaxing. After announcing his latest orders last week in New York, Pao hopped a plane for Tokyo to look for shipyards interested in another maxi-order...
Leave Her Alone. Nixon also pursued the independent Mrs. Smith, who had opposed the plane earlier but had voted for it this year in committee. He sent her a "Dear Margaret" letter announcing that he was "pleased" to rescind an order by the Johnson Administration closing the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on the Maine-New Hampshire border. With cool class, Mrs. Smith showed the letter to newsmen, and blandly said that she was "very much gratified" by the President's decision...