Word: newporters
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With a notable lack of fuss, the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. last week launched Hull No. 439. To the U.S. Navy, Hull No. 439 was the aircraft carrier Midway, biggest warship in the world...
...steel for 25,000 autos. It is wider and almost half again as heavy as the Essex class carriers, now the first line craft of the U.S. fleets. But the tin-hatted, horn-handed men who built the Midway are accustomed to superlatives. They have long bragged that: 1) Newport News is the biggest U.S. shipyard; 2) its sharp-eyed, terrier-like boss, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, 72, is by all odds the best builder of warships in the U.S., if not in the world...
When he graduated, he found that he had no love for a sailor's roving life, but he liked ships. So he settled down in the Navy's construction corps, left it after ten years to join Newport News. It had been established 19 years before by railroad-building Collis P. Huntington, whose aim was to "build good ships here, at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always good ships...
...ROTC Unit will receive commissions in the United States Naval Reserve or in the United States Marine Corps Reserve tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock during exercises which climax a seven term accelerated program of study. Vice Admiral W. S. Pye, USN. President of the Naval War College of Newport, Rhode Island, will award the commissions and address...
Allowing for the time difference, it was only 5 p.m. on Friday in Newport News, where riveters and welders were hard at work on the growing hulls of two other aircraft carriers: the Essex, and one to be called the Bon Homme Richard. U.S. carrier warfare, whose spectacular history Lieut. Oliver Jensen, a writer (on military leave) for LIFE, has now chronicled in one of the best-written and incomparably the best-illustrated book on the Navy in World War II, was in its feeble, hit & run infancy...