Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Volume II: Images of America

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QUONSET POINT NAVAL AIR STATION, Volume II: Images of America, by Sean Paul Milligan. Dover, N.H.: Arcadia, 1998. 128 pp. $18.99. [Phone: (888) 313-2665; Internet: www.arcadiaimages.com] This second volume adds nearly 200 new photographs to the pictorial history of Quonset Point Naval Air ...

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HISTORY REPEATED --
; An honor guard lowers the flag for the last time at Rhode Island's Quonset Point Naval Air Station in June 1974, when a number of New England military bases were being closed in cutbacks reminiscent of the current plans. UPI FILE PHOTO
SAVE THE CARRIER
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Florence Earley, 92, Quarryville
; ...Robert Fulton Highway, Quarryville, died there Friday after a long illness. During World War II, she worked at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Davisville, R.I., as a defense worker. She also worked for various jewelry manufacturers in Rhode...
Florence Earley, 92, of Quarryville
; ...R. Earley, 92, of Quarryville Presbyterian Community, died Friday at home after a long illness. She worked at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Davisville, R.I., as a defense worker. She also worked for various jewelry manufacturers in Rhode...
R.I. plans $700M megaport.
; ...million privately funded cargo port at Quonset Point, a former naval base on Narragansett...would be cheaper, he said, because Quonset Point would not be subject to a maintenance...Jeffrey Monroe, said that a port at Quonset Point would entail huge dredging costs, requiring...
New Automated Steel Processing Facility Is Dedicated in Quonset Point, R.I.
; ...Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 18--QUONSET POINT, R.I.--The new automated steel processing...John D. Holmander, the manager of the Quonset Point plant. What we will do in the future...the assessment of the wage package at Quonset Point has just been finished, and workers...
Electric Boat Climbs with Old, New Submarines in Rhode Island.
; ...the month, Electric Boat's plant at Quonset Point will have hired 250 new workers, 100...supervisory and professional workers at Quonset Point to transfer to the state of Washington...D. Holmander, general manager of EB Quonset Point. While we had a hiring campaign underway...
R.I. BOAT BUILDER TO HIRE 500
; ...announced that it was hiring 500 at its Quonset Point submarine-building facility. EB, a...workers for "continuing contracts" at Quonset Point, where the company builds submarine...headquarters, but about 100 people at Quonset Point also lost their jobs. EB said it was...
General Dynamics draws $615,000 fine by OSHA
; ...its submarine shipbuilding yard in Quonset Point, R.I. The department's Occupational...Dynamics vice president and manager of the Quonset Point facility. "We are alarmed by what is...results from an OSHA inspection of the Quonset Point yard that began last January in response...
FY99 TRANSPORTATION APPROS:ROBERT A. WEYGAND
; ...following projects to your attention: 1) Quonset Point Davisville 2) T.F. Green Airport Noise...Rhode Island Public Transit Authority QUONSET POINT DAVISVILLE Later this session, the...is undertaking the development of Quonset Point/Davisville (QP/D), a former Naval facility...