Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primarily to a technological revolution. The most interesting figure in that revolution is a dour-visaged man who watches it with gloomy satisfaction from a waterfront office in Manhattan. His name is William Francis Gibbs-known solemnly to his friends as William Francis. Lawyer, engineer and head of Gibbs & Cox, he is the top U.S. naval architect and marine engineer. His firm designed Paddy O'Laughlin's landing ships. It designed the Liberty ships. It has designed merchant ships, destroyers, tankers, cruisers. It designs means of building them swiftly and efficiently. It lays down their specifications...
...that William Francis Gibbs's firm does is titanic. A destroyer requires some 20,000 tracings. Every day Gibbs & Cox turns out from 8,000 to 10,000 blueprints, 26 acres of blueprints a month. On one multiple order of ships they may issue 6,700 purchase orders daily. Not a day goes by that the company does not contract for at least $1,000,000 worth of materials...
...Year One of the revolution was 1940, when the Maritime Commission asked Designer Gibbs to draw plans for a cargo ship that would be as simple as an iron pot, that could be mass-produced. Gibbs & Cox was supervising the construction of nearly such a ship for the British at two U.S. yards. Gibbs & Cox adapted it for the Commission. This was the Liberty ship and the beginning of the Gibbsian revolution...
...stories, but still has not hired a police reporter. The Constitution has not had a complete staff in the memory of Atlanta's oldest living newsmen. It loses good reporters who "cannot live on hope forever." Nobody seems to care that the rival Journal (bought by James W. Cox in 1939) beats it in circulation and news coverage. But the Constitution has upped circulation 40%, to its alltime high of 136,000 daily, 150,000 Sundays...
Second 150-lb. Boat: Abbot, stroke; Drury, 7; Locke, 6; Greene, 5; Whittemore, 4; Olney, 3; Loring, 2; Low, bow; and Evans as cox...