Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very much worthwhile, however, are the views of Leathernecks in training. The Marines have class, and it shows at every click of the camera shutter-in the way they handle their grunting green tanks, the symphonic grace of their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
...such brain was that of William Francis Gibbs. His firm of Gibbs & Cox, naval architects, had designed yachts, the luxurious "Santa" liners of the Grace Line, slick, sleek destroyers for the Navy. For the Maritime Commission's merchant fleet tall, bony, bespectacled Mr. Gibbs had adapted the design of a British freighter, a little ugly duckling of 10,000 dead-weight tons. Parts were standardized for mass production. The plan, which the Maritime Commission adopted, called for simple reciprocating engines, fittings, gears, pumps (all interchangeable) to be made from coast to coast, shipped, fitted into place at the yards...
...cassock. But the missionary from Maryknoll thought his last moment was at hand. Now he knows how he will act if martyrdom really comes to him. He tried to look unconcerned, and he prayed. Not until hours later did he realize, "quite mortified," that he had said the grace before meals instead of the Act of Contrition...
Last December W. R. Grace & Co. got good & mad. The four Panagra directors named by Pan Am refused to let Panagra petition for a route north from Panama. So Grace went ahead on its own hook, filed an application-complaint with CAB. The application: a terminal for Panagra in New Orleans, Tampa or Miami. The complaint: "connecting service [by Pan Am] has become increasingly inadequate. . . . [The new route] would forever free the Panagra service from dependence on a connecting carrier . .. whose interests can never be expected to be exclusively service to the Panagra route." Pan Am says it has fulfilled...
This week dopesters could see a big ace hiding in Grace's terminal application: Panagra's extension to the U.S., it says, would better serve passengers from the French, German and Italian airlines Panagra has taken over in the last year. Since better service means Better Neighbors, the application apparently has the State Department's blessing...