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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Grant was held in harbor last week with a vengeance. The Fannie Insley, carrying a load of empty oyster shells across the bay to a fertilizer factory in Crisfield, Md., had sailed without her. Captain Grant did not mind sea smells, but she drew the line at the stink of empty oyster shells. A sudden bay squall caught the Fannie off dangerous Windmill Point, in the Rappahannock River. The foremast snapped, then the mainmast crashed over the side. The Fannie's seams opened, the sea poured in. Captain Wilbur Willey, the mate and the cook got a small...
Army Technical Schools: Enrollment: several hundred soldier-mechanics. Chief schools: Chanute Flying Field (Ill.), Lowry Flying Field (Colo.), Camp Holabird (Md.), Scott Field...
Catonsville, Md...
...preparatory hum spread through the U. S. last week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings...
...Dakin 2G, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Maxwell F. C. Day 2G, of Killara, N. S. W., Australia; Samuel F. Johnson, of W., Australia; Samuel F. Johnson, of Upper Darby, Pa.; John F. Ohl 2G, of Evanston, Ill.; Joseph L. Sullivan, of Austin, Tex.; and Horbert B. Woolley 1G, of Silverspring. Md...