Word: christied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown brothers started in the construction business (Colorado River Mansfield Dam and Corpus Christi Naval Air Station). In mid-1941 came a lucky accident: the Browns heard that a small Houston shipyard was going to lose its subchaser contract because of money troubles. They asked for the job and got it. Within six months the Browns bought and cleared a 156-acre tract, built a small shipyard of secondhand materials, rounded up a working force, purchased supplies and parts and launched the first subchaser. The Navy promptly gave the Browns more subchaser orders plus a contract for a medium-sized...
...inland waterways creep up the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Monongahela, the Allegheny to upriver terminals, there transfer their oil to tank cars for the short haul east. Already Gulf loadings of river barges have doubled or tripled over last year. Loaded at Houston or Corpus Christi, the barges now thread their way through the shallows and marshes of the Gulf Coast to the Mississippi. After April 1, when an intracoastal canal through these waters will be opened all the way to Corpus Christi, barge loadings are expected to soar still more...
Each month 100 Britons enter Jacksonville, Pensacola and Corpus Christi. Like Army airmen, Navy instructors find that the first stages of their courses often prove baffling. But after catching the hang of language, speed and precision, the British students average out about the same as American boys, with a few crack pilots, plenty above average, none that are dopes; the washout system takes care of that...
...will have completed their training when they have passed one month at Squantum and seven months more at Jacksonville, Pensacola, or Corpus Christi. At the end of that period they are commissioned either as Ensigns in the Naval Reserve of Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve, and receive the gold wings of a Naval Aviator...
...program will include a Dutch Folk Song, "Prayer of Thanksgiving"; Josquin des Pres, "O Domine Jesu Christi"; Verdi, opening scene from "Otello"; Scottish Folk Song, "Bonnic Dundee"; American Folk Song, arranged by Edward B. Lawton, "Casey Jones"; and Sullivan, four choruses from "Patience...