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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...
...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...
Christened Maria Elizabeth Katerina Gabrielle Dorothea Constance Edwarda in Manhattan's Corpus Christi Catholic Church was the daughter of Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein, former leader of the Catholic party in Germany. Godparents: Dr. Eduard Benes, former president of Czecho-Slovakia, and Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler...