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Article: Shipbuilder Provides Lifeblood, Soul of Small-Town Pascagoula, Miss.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- December 14, 2000
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Dec. 10--PASCAGOULA, Miss.--Francis Hutchinson remembers the impact the place had when it opened. Before Ingalls Shipbuilding came along, Pascagoula was a sleepy town, where working men had few options.
"Three of the streets around here were made out of shell when Ingalls opened," Hutchinson, 77, said over coffee one morning at Sav Rex Pharmacy on Market Street, where old-timers come for breakfast and conversation. "Ingalls brought a lot of money to the Mississippi Coast."
Ingalls brought a lot of money to the Hutchinson family, too. Before Ingalls opened in 1938, Hutchinson's father, Lee, toiled at a veneer mill, supporting a wife and seven children on ...
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