Word: mex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Avenue El, the old approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge, and the liner Normandie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1946). So they expected no trouble when they bought the decommissioned battleship New Mexico for $381,000 (original cost in 1917: $17,348,200). But last week as the New Mex, shorn of her power plant and with holes bored in her big guns, was towed from Boston toward Newark, trouble hit her like a spread of torpedoes amidships...
...Lipsett brothers had a deal with the Navy to moor the New Mex at its Newark dock while they cut her up. But as the battleship approached, the city of Newark declared a blockade...
Duffy v. Dreadnought. Newark, which recently agreed to lease its port facilities to the Port of New York Authority (TIME, Nov. 3) for an $11,000,000 development program, thought the New Mex would block the program by tying up pier space. So Newark's Mayor Vincent Joseph Murphy, egged on by the local press, ordered out the city's two fire boats, Michael P. Duffy and William J. Brennan, to block the port's narrow entrance...
...tiny (30-ft.) boats duly began patrolling the channel, squirting their 20 nozzles as ominously as they could for news photographers. But the New Mexico did not arrive. In rough weather off the Long Island coast the tugs cast off her tows, and for a few hours the New Mex strayed alone on the Atlantic. Finally the Coast Guard found the battleship wallowing helplessly in heavy seas and the tugs got lines aboard once more...
...taught reading, writing and the catechism to New Mexican schoolchildren, until he was excommunicated for having too many children of his own. State law prohibits religious instruction in public schools, but the law has long been winked at. Last week, in the remote town of Dixon, N. Mex., the winking stopped...