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...the town on a sunny midsummer day, I found funky stores selling old LPs, an Indian lawyer who exulted in the “quality of life” in his adopted home, Chinese tourists by the busload and not only around the shipyards...
...The authors paint a masterful portrait of the second world war production miracle, blending tales of Ford’s Willow-Run plant and Henry Kaiser’s west coast shipyards with obscure achievements such as the...
...What was good for Edward VII was also good for Kaiser Wilhelm II in those heady days before the first world war, when the crowned heads of Europe were content to settle their differences in friendly competition...
...Kennedy, whose father worked in the shipyards, was the first in his family to go to university, although he almost gave up his studies to become a racing tipster....
...Maritime buffs will remember the Kaiser shipyard in the US, where the record for production of a Liberty ship was just four days....
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