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Author Fabey, Michael, author.

Title Heavy metal : the hard days and nights of the shipyard workers who build America's supercarriers / Michael Fabey.

Publication Info. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
©2022

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  338.47623 FABEY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  623.83 FABEY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  623.83 FABEY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  623.83 FABEY    Missing
Edition First edition.
Description x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Summary 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.
Subject Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company -- History.
Shipbuilding -- Virginia -- Newport News -- History.
Shipbuilding industry -- Virginia -- Newport News -- Employees -- History.
Aircraft carriers -- United States -- Design and construction.
Newport News (Va.) -- History, Naval.
ISBN 9780062996251 (hardcover)
0062996258 (hardcover)
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