Word: newport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Give & Take. In Newport, Ky., Marvin Coulson, who had bitterly complained to police that thugs had held him up for $40, finally confessed that the money was part of the $43 he had stolen from Elmer Catron...
June Tyler '47 of Milton was one of 29 ensigns indoctrinated January 10 at the Newport, R. I. Naval Base as the first class of WAVES to receive officer's training under the Navy's peacetime program. Their acceptance overthrows the Navy's 150-year-old tradition in that women can now take on the Navy Blue as a full-time career...
Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal hauled the top brass and the top braid off to the seclusion of Key West and Newport, ostensibly-so the reports said-to knock the big heads together. But on close inspection, the big heads emerged not even bloody, much less unbowed. Was "unification" a failure...
...Headed for a New York honeymoon, Mr. & Mrs. David Fromal of Newport News, Va. parked their car in the wrong place in Baltimore, were held up for four days and had their car impounded because Fromal had forgotten the registration card. To make amends, Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro gave them the key to the city, paid their fine, saw that they got their car back. The Baltimore News-Post wined & dined them, gave them theater tickets. The Fromals decided to finish their honeymoon in Baltimore...
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...