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In 1924, Andrew Higgins, a lumber merchant in Mobile, Alabama gets into a nasty accident: during the work to unload a ship bringing a teak cargo from South America an old rope breaks and a log falls on Higgins, who was overseeing the work but got unfortunately distracted at the exactly wrong time. A dock worker runs to get a doctor, but when the physician finally arrives, he has no option but to declare the man dead from a devastating blow to the head.

What, in your opinion, would be the possible knock-on effects and butterflies stemming from the premature death of Higgins, the OTL founder of Higgins Industries and the designer and builder of military landing craft and PT boats, among other things, for the US Navy and other buyers during the 30s and WWII?
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