Word: shipyards
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...Think of the insight into the life of man we would get from an exact report of a morning's profane conversations in a shipyard at Cadiz when the Armada was fitting out! The trouble with a poet, and a novelist too, very often, is that he has never done the thing himself. He hate's work, and if by chance he has to work at the bench or in a mill, he becomes at once a wage slave and imagines all other workers have the same feeling towards work that he has." The words are Chief Engineer Spenlove...
Three thousand British shipwrights, fitters, engineers and electricians laid by their tools and materials last week and sadly filed out of the shipyard of John Brown & Co., Ltd. Behind them they left the largest ship's hull that man has ever riveted together - Britannia's unfinished bid to rule the Atlantic mercantile wave again. As a handful of watchmen took up their duties under the deserted hulk, deepest gloom settled over Clydebank. Less than 30% of all Clyde shipworkers remained at work...
...millionaire, has his pleasure craft built abroad. Mr. Hutton's Hussar I, now in use, was built at Kiel in 1923. Now abuilding, also at Kiel, is Hussar II. It will cost $1,250,000. Since labor is the largest cost in yacht building (80%), and since German shipyard labor costs 22? an hour-48? less than the U. S. scale- Mr. Hutton will save himself $500,000 by having his boat constructed abroad. From this saving, however, must be deducted a 30% import duty ($375,000 on Hussar II) in effect since...
...converted Navy submarine with which Explorer Sir George Hubert Wil- kins expects to prowl like a polliwog under the Arctic ice next summer, cruised last week from its shipyard at Camden, N. J. to New York Harbor. Sir Hubert, with a fresh medal in his kit,* walked the gangplank to a Brooklyn dock and stood by while the curious eyed his beard and submarine...
...Minister of Mercantile Marine, took steps last week to make the French Rooster still more of a seagoing bird. When the Chambre des Députés opens in October he will present two bills calculated to encourage the construction of fast commercial vessels and relieve shipyard unemployment...