Word: christied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dune-strewn shore of Flour Bluf Peninsula twelve miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Tex. on the Gulf of Mexico, was once an old camp site where Indians buried their dead. Then it became the favorite hunting, fishing, and picnic grounds of Corpus Christians. Last week the scrub oak peninsula brislted with shiny white hangars, repair shops, buildings of all descriptions. In bright new classrooms, 52 pink-cheeked, khaki-clad youths got their initial instruction. Seventy-five more were due thi week. The U. S. Navy's biggest air station (70% completed) was open 16 months ahead of the original...
When Corpus Christi swings into peak operation in July, its 800 instructors will get 300 raw cadets every month. By that time the Navy's new air station at Jacksonville, Fla. will be at capacity (200 a month) its third air training station, Pensacola, up to 300. But Corpus Christi will be the only station where the full flying course (primary, basic and full advanced training) is given...
...plane fleet), of its 1945 objective (25,000 active and reserve pilots) . Best it could hlpe for, even with the 13-month training course cut to seven and a half, was 6,000 graduate pilots, 4,200 more in training by next January. The Navy hopes Corpus Christi will go on breaking records...
...passed and sent to the Senate a bill increasing the Navy's authorized man power to 300,000, the Navy's new officer-training program was well under way. For an output of 6,720 airmen by 1942 it had training stations at Pensacola, Jacksonville and Corpus Christi (TIME, Feb. 17). For its 5,000 new officers a year for ship and shore duty, the Navy had lined up 5,600 candidates for its first group. Specifications: single men, 21-to-26, with at least two years of college. Through the summer and fall the students got their...
Under the defense program, busy Mr. Kaiser has been busier than ever. He is helping build the new $25,000,000 Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Tex. As an aide to his good friend John David Reilly, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., he is helping build 60 cargo ships for Britain, 87 freighters for the Maritime Commission, a fleet of destroyers for the Navy. His Permanente Co. put up a cement plant in California and snagged a big Government contract by underbidding other Pacific Coast firms by an average...