Word: drydock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ships. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. was the low bidder on U.S. Lines' projected new 48,000-ton superliner (TIME, Aug. 2), proposing to build the ship for $67,350,000. The contract must still be approved by the U.S. Maritime Commission...
...second half, Navy's 200-lb. Fullback Bill Hawkins, who had been in drydock with an infection and a damaged shoulder, really got up steam. Seaworthy once more, he played almost the full 60 minutes, backing up Navy's line, blocking ferociously, plunging through the enemy line on offense. It was all Bill Hawkins as Navy drove down the field in the closing minutes for the tying touchdown. Final score: Navy 21, Army 21. It was easily the upset of the year...
...Randall, Leverett coxswain, whose position Miss Grube endangered, saw the abortive attempt to muscle in as a 'Cliffe conspiracy to reassert its position on the Charles, lost last spring when the Annex boats officially entered permanent drydock as a result of financial inadequacies...
...Renault, who went by the name "Rémy," among other names, organized a network of intelligence agents in occupied France. His territory included the entire Atlantic coast, from Dieppe to Bayonne. The raid on the French coast at Bruneval and the raid in force that crippled the great drydock at St.-Nazaire (denying any haven outside Germany to the battleship Tirpitz), were carried out with the aid of reports received from...
Steamboat round the Bend. The Greene Line Steamers, Inc. announced that the 250-ft. steamer Delta Queen, which it bought last year from the U.S. Maritime Commission, will soon go into drydock in preparation for Mississippi River service. Launched in Glasgow in 1924, the steel-hulled Queen has served most of her time as a West Coast ferry. In her new role as one of the Mississippi's few extant sternwheelers, she will offer -air-conditioned accommodations for up to 200 passengers on trips between Cincinnati and New Orleans...