Also listed is Thomas Andrews the shipbuilder in charge of the plans for the Titanic, who died on its maiden voyage.

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Businesses that work with the military, like the Virginia shipbuilder that I visited on Tuesday, may have to lay folks off.

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But it's part of what lies behind the exasperated tone to the statement from the Clyde shipbuilder unions, effectively saying (I paraphrase and perhaps exaggerate a bit): "grow up, both sides, it's our jobs at stake, and there's other stuff going on besides your constitutional obsessions".

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Mississippi Gulf Coast has beautiful beaches, the nation's largest shipbuilder, a giant NASA rocket test complex, a huge oil refinery, air force and naval bases and a dozen casinos.

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Since then it has bought Litton Industries and Newport News to become the world's largest naval shipbuilder.

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Ferguson's influence in McLeish's life grew when the defender, at the age of 22, lost his shipbuilder father to a heart attack.

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It provides the monthly change in stock lending patterns so now might not be the time to start buying shares in defense shipbuilder VT Group.

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His shipbuilder, OSX, has not been faring so well in the Brazilian market, mainly due to construction delays.

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