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...Feat. Born in Belmont, Mass., and educated at Brown ('17), Homer once worked as a 13?-an-hour lathe operator during summer vacation. It was as a World War I Navy lieutenant and pioneer submariner that he caught the eye of Bethlehem management at the company's shipyard in Quincy, Mass. After the war, he moved up at flank speed in Bethlehem Ship, became vice president in charge of it in 1940. During World War II, his 200,000-man force turned out 1,127 ships, from landing craft to aircraft carriers, a Homeric feat unequaled...
Trade & Land. The Braun-Menendezes own a fleet of twelve fishing and cargo ships, piers and a shipyard, and a six-plane airline called Austral with routes spanning 2,500 miles. Their 22 stores, selling everything from pins to pickup trucks, have prospered from Patagonia's oil boom; 600,000 sheep fatten on their vast ranches. In a holding company named La Josefina (after their mother), the family has impressive investments in Argentine banking, insurance and chemical companies. With all that diversity, they have prospered despite Argentina's continuing financial trouble. By family reckoning, their companies last year...
Washington (9). Boeing's loss of the TFX fighter-aircraft contract and the state's loss of shipyard work to the East have irked both management and labor, could be just enough to tip the state to Goldwater...
...sailed to victory in the 1960 Olympics. Hunt showed up at the world championship to try out his latest 5.5, Chaje II, built by Finnish Shipbuilder Jussi Nemes. The two planned to race her together. But Nemes had to rush home at the last minute-his shipyard had burned to the ground-and he asked Hunt to take over...
...trade of $141 billion, but it is significant enough to individual Western firms. Richard Thomas & Baldwins, Ltd., Britain's last remaining nationalized steelmaker, is being helped in a period of soft demand by a $2.8 million order that Red China placed last week. West Germany's Howaldt shipyard, which lately has been working below capacity, will be busy until 1966 because last week it won a $63 million contract to build eight Soviet trawlers...