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  • Fabey, Michael, author.
     
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  • Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company -- History.
     
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  • Shipbuilding -- Virginia -- Newport News -- History.
     
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  • Shipbuilding industry -- Virginia -- Newport News -- Employees -- History.
     
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  • Aircraft carriers -- United States -- Design and construction.
     
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  • Newport News (Va.) -- History, Naval.
     
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    Heavy metal : the hard days and nights of the shipyard workers who build America's supercarriers / Michael Fabey.
    by Fabey, Michael, author.
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    New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
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  • Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company -- History.
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  • Shipbuilding -- Virginia -- Newport News -- History.
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  • Shipbuilding industry -- Virginia -- Newport News -- Employees -- History.
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  • Aircraft carriers -- United States -- Design and construction.
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  • Newport News (Va.) -- History, Naval.
  • ISBN: 
    9780062996251 (hardcover) :
    0062996258 (hardcover)
    Description: 
    x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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    First edition.
    Contents: 
    Prologue -- Steel City -- Outclassed -- Steel vets -- Labor gains -- Metal data -- Setting precedents -- Trade wars -- Weapons await -- Trump card -- The flood cometh -- Blame game -- Caroline, again -- On course -- Covid carrier -- A matter of culture -- Ship shape.
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    Presents the extraordinary story of the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its thirty thousand employees and shipyard workers who battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers, and a pandemic to build the U.S. Navy's newest and most powerful aircraft carrier.
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    Hawaii State LibraryBusiness, Science & Technology338.47623 FaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


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