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...workingmen in the mountain village of Stora Blasjon, some without work for the past two years, went on a hunger strike last month before the government finally gave them jobs on a road-building project. The government and private sources recently had to rescue the super-modernized Götaverken shipyards because the firm ran short of cash...
Stern First. When the new, $36,000,000 Arendal yard of the Götaverken Ship Building Co. goes into production near Göteborg next spring, it will be the world's most fully automated shipyard, capable of building colossal, 140,000-ton ships on the industry's first real assembly line. It throws out the old method of building ships on stationary ways from the keel up. Instead, ships will emerge from a giant assembly shed stern first in 45-ft. sections; as they move down the ways, everything from deckplates to cabin carpets will...
...many of the contracts they are taking on now will show them no real gains. But from the hard lessons they are learning in the lean years, they will be ready to ride the next big wave of world shipbuilding to solid profits. In the meantime, says Götaverken's Managing Director Hilding Nielsen: "We have to build big if we are to survive...
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