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    shipping. Four of the Kaiser Shipyards were located in Richmond, California, and were called the Richmond Shipyards. Three other shipyards were located in the...
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    II, Kaiser was involved in the construction industry; his company was one of those that built the Hoover Dam. He established the Kaiser Shipyards, which...
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    four Richmond Shipyards, in the city of Richmond, California, United States, were run by Permanente Metals and part of the Kaiser Shipyards. In World War...
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  • of notable shipbuilders and shipyards: Suez shipyard Alexandria Shipyard Baku Shipyard FMC Dockyard Limited Ananda Shipyard and Shipways Bashundhara Steel...
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    Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is made up of three distinct but interdependent groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation...
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    Vigor Shipyards is the current entity operating the former Todd Shipyards after its acquisition in 2011. Todd Shipyards was founded in 1916, which owned...
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    ships were built as cargo or troopships in four shipyards: Kaiser Richmond, California (35 ships), Kaiser Vancouver, Washington (20 ships), Sun Shipbuilding...
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    In 1941 Edgar was appointed Vice-President and General Manager of Kaiser Shipyards responsible for building ships from prefabricated parts in the context...
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  • known for having managed the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California, owned by one of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser's many corporations, and also engaged...
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    center. The four Richmond Shipyards were part of the Kaiser Shipyards; construction started in early 1941 and the shipyards were completed by 1942.: 12 ...
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  • California Kaiser Shipyards, part of Kaiser Shipbuilding Company Kaiser Steel, a former steelmaking company that was based in California Kaiser Foundation...
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    Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation (category Henry J. Kaiser)
    Shipbuilding program. It was closed after the war ended. The shipyard, one of three Kaiser Shipyards in the area, was in the St. Johns neighborhood of North...
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  • bulk carrier operating on the Great Lakes. The ship was built at the Kaiser Shipyard in Swan Island, Oregon, for the U.S. Maritime Commission as a Type...
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    focuses on the Pendleton rescue. The ship was built as yard number 49 by Kaiser Shipyards, Swan Island Yard, Portland, Oregon. Measured at 10,448 GRT, 6,801 NRT...
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    As the war expanded, Kaiser would rapidly open seven Kaiser Shipyards on the West Coast of the US, with the four Richmond Shipyards located near San Francisco...
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  • themselves. About 95% of the workers signed up. The Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital for the Kaiser Shipyards, financed by the United States Maritime Commission...
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    World War II to work in war industries, especially, in shipyards such as the Kaiser Shipyards. During their first two seasons, the Raiders played their...
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    The shipyard was one of three Kaiser Shipyards in the Pacific Northwest, along with the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation and the Swan Island Shipyard across...
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    Kaiser shipyards in the Portland area, along with the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation and the Vancouver Shipyard. Before the opening of the shipyard,...
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    about a year and a half during the war. He also worked briefly at Kaiser Shipyards in Portland, Oregon, apparently lured by the free tickets, free accommodations...
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    Bonneville Dam Celilo Falls Copperfield Fort Stevens Harbor Drive Kaiser Shipyards Shanghai tunnels Vanport Politicians Victor Atiyeh George Chamberlain...
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    Bonneville Dam Celilo Falls Copperfield Fort Stevens Harbor Drive Kaiser Shipyards Shanghai tunnels Vanport Politicians Victor Atiyeh George Chamberlain...
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    for transports to replace ships that had been lost. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945 (an average of three ships...
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    (MC hull 1102) on 6 February 1943 at Vancouver, Washington, by the Kaiser Shipyards; launched on 15 September 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Frederick Carl Sherman...
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  • during the war. She was built at the Permanente Metals Corporation (Kaiser) shipyards in Richmond, California. Her namesake was Stephen Hopkins, a Founding...
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  • moved to Swan Island on land formerly occupied by wartime housing for Kaiser Shipyards. In the 1960s, Fred Meyer entered the Seattle market by acquiring Seattle-based...
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    three Kaiser Shipyards and of Vanport City, Oregon to support them. By 1945, PGE derived nearly $400,000 in revenue from the two Kaiser shipyards in Oregon...
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    number of merchant ships built at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond and the Los Angeles areas. Mare Island Naval Shipyard (now closed) in the San Francisco...
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    aircraft parts Packard, aircraft engines Sperry Corporation, electronics Kaiser Shipyards, ships Westinghouse Electric Company, parts Grumman, aircraft Newport...
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    helped bring about the demise of "auxiliary" (segregated) unions in the Kaiser shipyards. His daughter, Jane Eshleman Conant, was a pioneering woman writer...
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