Word: christied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas A & 1.27, Corpus Christi...
When Corn Products Refining Co. set out to build a new plant at Corpus Christi, Texas two years ago, it wanted to find some new solutions to the old problems which have always plagued the grain-processing industry-explosive dust and dangerous fumes. It gave the job to Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., builder of the thermal diffusion unit* of the Oak Ridge atom bomb plant. Ferguson engineers decided that the best way to eliminate dangerous working conditions within enclosed spaces was to build a plant without walls...
...dusk on the eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Archbishop Josef Beran walked past Tommy gun-toting plainclothesmen, passed through the gates of his magnificent baroque palace on Prague's Hradcany Square, and stepped into his black, eight-cylindered Tatra. While Communist police continued their four-day search of the archbishop's palace, he sped off to the ancient monastery of Strahov, where about 3,000 of the faithful awaited...
From Corpus Christi to the Mexican border, the slender, 119-mile-long finger of Padre Island guards the Texas gulf coast from the Gulf of Mexico, forms the shallow waters of Laguna Madre. Within this calm lagoon one day last week, two huge Government dredges, the Caribbean and the Miami, chewed their way towards each other through mud, sand, shell and stone. About eight months ago, the Caribbean had started north from Brownsville, the Miami south from Corpus Christi. Last week the big cutting blades of the dredges slashed through the last barriers between them-completing the last link...
...canal from Florida to Corpus Christi had already proved a lifesaver in World War II. While tankers were being sunk by submarines within sight of the coast, the canal barges were safe from attack. That boomed shipping on the canal from 7,000,000 tons (prewar) to a peak of 17,500,000 tons in 1944. There has been little tapering-off since...