Word: casablanca
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...placid Puget Sound, the U.S.S. Casablanca, first of the 50 new small Kaiser aircraft carriers, triumphantly sped through its trial runs, just 236 days after the keel was laid...
...slow-looking, fast-moving Henry Kaiser, both triumphs were sweet. As a production man, the sweeter was the flat-topped Casablanca. For when Kaiser hopped into Washington only last March with plans for large-scale construction of desperately needed carriers from merchant-ship designs, he was cold-shouldered. As usual, the Navy turned him down. As usual, "practical" shipbuilders said the ships would be no good...
...Navy. This week, as the Casablanca crisscrossed Puget Sound with happy Henry Kaiser aboard, the engine ran superbly. Smoothly, the $7,000,000 Casablanca did better than its designed speed, controlled nicely at slow speeds, came through perfectly on a crash stop...
...Paris exhibition. Four Churchill oils were sold (for ?30 each). Once a Churchill painting went for an even higher price at a Balmoral benefit. But the Prime Minister keeps most of his 300-odd pictures in his own studio. (In Marrakech, Morocco, on a day off after the Casablanca Conference with President Roosevelt, he painted a view of the Atlas Mountains...
...Star and still makes his Saturday nite runs into Boston. . . DAVE HORWITZ was in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in late '42 and spent some time on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey, when you visit me here please don't expound too much on my cruising the Chicago River...