Word: christied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, also, settlements coagulated around the ranches. Corpus Christi grew to 57,000; the Rio Grande Valley, desolate and sandy in Grandpa King's day, bloomed under irrigation; oil towns fed wealth to the cities along the Gulf. But through all Texas' titanic changes, the 1,500 miles of wire fence still surrounded the fiat coastal plains and brush land of the King and Kenedy ranches. The Hug-the-Coast Highway from Houston through Corpus Christi cut straight across country-until it came to the fence at the Kenedy County line. Then it detoured 23 miles west...
Three years ago the Kenedys and Klebergs agreed to let the road go through. Last week it was opened. Typically Texan was the celebration. Caravans arrived from San Antonio. Houston, Orange, Corpus Christi. Louisiana, Mexico and the Valley. There were 1,500 Boy Scouts on hand. In most of the Valley towns there were free lunches. Army bands. Variously they had a rodeo, a wild-animal act, performing elephants, sound trucks. A song. Along the Bay, was written for the occasion. There was a special Christmas vespers service...
...Jacksonville base, at first, will turn out only 50 a month. But by next July Jack Towers hopes to enroll 200 students a month in each of the two schools, as signing 3,000 graduates a year to tactical organizations. Still abuilding is a third school, at Corpus Christi, Tex., to be commissioned early in 1942, with an initial capacity of 100 students a month...
...Carter Wesley, A.B. (Fisk), LL.D. (Northwestern), onetime first lieutenant in the A. E. F., publisher of seven Texas papers (the Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Austin, Longview, Lovelady Informer, the Dallas Express), backed Roosevelt in 1932, 1936, this year backs Willkie. Says Publisher Wesley: "We are supporting Willkie not because we think that he can do more for the Negro race, but because Negroes will share in the betterment of business if Willkie is elected...
...geared to take 150 a month (Floyd Bennett alone has 200 on its waiting list). With $45,000,000 to spend on new training facilities, the Navy by mid-1941 expects to have Pensacola up to 300 a month; a new, $25,000,000 station at Corpus Christi, Tex. up to another 300; a station at Jacksonville...