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Ship-building continues but with an emphasis on vessels that are useful in combat near coastlines rather than countering non-existent deep water threats.
William Bradley: Obama's New Geopolitics: 10 Key Takeaways 2009
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Workers of the Federation of Engineering and Ship-building Trades in Belfast went on strike for a 44-hour work week.
1919, Jan. 21 2001
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Ship-building has not been altogether abandoned, but it is only a shadow of its former greatness.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Various
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Ship-building, a Brief Sketch of Naval Affairs, with the
Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain Julia Charlotte Maitland
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I would have encouraged our Salt-works, and our Ship-building, and I would have set on Foot a Society, to have set up and directed our Fisheries both in the North and South Coasts of this Island.
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Ship-building swindle, and he got hold of a lot of important papers, and he took them to his office, and sat by while his clerks made thirty-two copies of them.
The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923
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Ship-building, often urged because of superior advantages for the industry, did not take hold in the South. 82
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Ship-building was the same in the middle of the nineteenth century as in the middle of the sixteenth, perhaps even less advanced.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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Ship-building is my trade, to say nothing of guns -- I wasn't two years in the artillery for nothing.
The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897
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Ship-building is my trade, to say nothing of guns -- I wasn't two years in the artillery for nothing.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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