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Good news for Brooklyn Yard

Caption: "Good news for Brooklyn Yard--Representative Francis E. Dorn, Brooklyn Republican, Navy officials and two representatives of employee groups at the Brooklyn Navy Yard point to the subject [on a large globe] of their Washington talks after conference on planned job cuts at the borough yard. As a result of the conference, the original 10 percent cut, meaning 2,000 jobs, was scaled down to less than 8 percent, or 1,500 jobs. Left to right are Rear Admiral W. D. Leggett, Thomas Curry, Dorn, Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson, and Hugh Breslin [wearing a neck brace]." Image includes an unidentified man sitting in upper right background.

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