Word: shipyards
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...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...
...When L.B.J. promised Tip O'Neill to keep the Boston Naval Shipyard open in return for a favorable vote, the Massachusetts Congressman was pleased. Yet when Carter implied similar home-state favors to a few Senators on the Panama Canal treaties, they complained loudly about unfair presidential arm twisting...
According to General Dynamics, the rash of changes was ordered because the Navy was just in too much of a hurry. Ordinarily, a contracting firm builds a "lead" ship before it gets awards to construct a new class of vessels. That way, the shipyard can work out design and engineering bugs and get a fairly accurate idea of cost before moving into mass production. But to save time on the production of nuclear subs, the Navy insisted on signing contracts with incomplete designs and specifications, and left details to be settled later...