Word: newporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newport News. Biggest independent U. S. shipyard and No. 2 of the Big 3 is Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., a $73,000,000 corporation built 54 years ago by the late Railroader Collis P. Huntington, who knew nothing about ships. With very little interference from its absentee owners, the yard has averaged a cozy $1,500,000 annually for ten or twelve years. In its big, greasy, snarled James River yard (eight ways) last week $180,000,000 worth of ships were building: U. S. Lines' 24,800-ton America, largest U. S. liner ever built...
Odlum's liquidation program gave them a chance. Year ago he sold a small U. P. & L. property in Newport, R. I. It was the first time a holding company had ever sold 100% control of an operating company back to the public. But less than $2,000,000 was involved, none of it new money. During the past year, Odlum prepared to repeat the experiment: this time with the bigtime U. P. & L. property in Indianapolis...
...gets her pa to shell out $425 for ten weeks of apprenticeship at an arty summer theatre. The old Lewis ear for idiom goes to work on airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...
...gift of $233,200 each to Harvard and Yale Universities as part of the $3,500,000 bequest of the Reverend Dr. Alexander G. Mercer of Newport, Rhods Island was provided by the final decree of Superior Court last week...
...Brown live quietly on the island of Martha's Vineyard, where summer boarders and the radio provide the chief excitement. One night last winter, tuning around on his all-wave radio, Captain Brown picked up a sure-enough distress call from a tanker aground off Newport, called the U. S. Coast Guard, brought about the rescue...