Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Begetters of CAP were Gill Robb Wilson, World War I flyer, poet, New Jersey State aviation director; Guy Gannett. Maine newspaper publisher; Thomas H. Beck, huge, booming-voiced president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. Chief executive is another hulk of a man, Earle Johnson of Ohio, 6 ft. 4½ in., newly commissioned a captain in the Army Air Force...
Nusbaum, Robert Collier...
...story, as it was finally told, the Navy had nothing to be ashamed, much of high courage to remember. To bolster Java's defenses, the old Langley (born the collier Jupiter 29 years ago, transformed into the first U.S. carrier, finally reduced to a drudge's job) was loaded with fighters...
Though there are about 50 to 100 show-girl "hostesses" a night, there are also an increasing number of "senior hostesses" (older actresses like Antoinette Perry and Constance Collier), because the Canteen has found that lots of the kids are skirt-shy, only feel at home with substitutes for Mother. For all hostesses there are two ironclad rules: They must be members of the entertainment professions (or the daughter or wife of a member), and they may not leave the place with a service...
Building ships has always been Sam Robinson's specialty. Now 59, he graduated from Annapolis in 1903, went back after six years at sea for engineering postgraduate work. Most of his career has been in Navy engineering departments. He was executive officer on the Collier Jupiter, first ship equipped with electric drive, learned enough about electric machinery to design it for many a battlewagon...