Word: christied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having given away her mansion and large chunks of her fortune, Clara Driscoll established herself in a giant (twelve bathrooms) penthouse atop Corpus Christi's luxurious Driscoll Hotel. She had built the place in a typically willful gesture, after dressing down the manager of another house where she didn't like the service, and promising him she would put up a hotel of her own, tall enough for her to spit...
Intermediate flight training at Pensacola, Florida, or Corpus Christi, Texas completes the pilot's education and culminates in a commission as ensign in the Naval Reserve. About ten weeks of operational training with a unit must follow, however, before the pilot officers are assigned to active combat overseas...
...took the biggest chance of its corporate life. It sank more than $12,500,000 of its own cash, and another $44,000,000 borrowed from the Reconstruction Finance Corp., into building the longest natural gas pipeline in the world; 1,265 miles from its rich fields near Corpus Christi, Texas to West Virginia, hub of the profitable northern market...
...Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, a Negro seaman found out that color was a bar to advancement, no matter what the books said...
KENNETH J. PAGAN ist Lieutenant, U.S.M.C. Corpus Christi...