Word: ashtabula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Providence, Los Angeles, Montclair (N.J.), Mason City (Iowa) and Ashtabula (Ohio...
...president, the 133-man N.A.M. board chose an example of what free enterprise has meant in America's past: Robert Ross Wason (rhymes with ah son), 57, president of Manhattan's Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc. (cranes, hoists, safety valves, etc.). Born a poor boy in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wason got his first job at eleven, worked his way through high school as a janitor. After graduation he worked as a longshoreman, blacksmith's helper and dock hand, and cub reporter on the Ashtabula Independent at $15 a week...
...defense" project, the Seaway's best point is that shipbuilders' ways at Ashtabula and Lorain on the Great Lakes could be put to work on ocean vessels in a couple of years. The Navy is already building .small submarines at Manitowoc, Wis. Said Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr.: "Should the Axis powers be victorious, they would commence a shipbuilding race against the U.S. with the shipbuilding facilities of the entire European coasts, which are several times larger than our own. In that event...