Word: pascagoula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the waters of the East Pascagoula River last week slid the 492-foot, 8,900-ton cargo ship Exchequer - first ship launched from Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.'s brand-new ways at Pascagoula, Miss. Lat est addition to the Maritime Commission's new U. S. merchant marine (500 ships in ten years), the $2,600,000 cargopassenger carrier held more than passing interest for U. S. shipbuilders. She was the largest all-welded general cargo ship ever built...
...torching, shooting and roasting two Negroes to death at Duck Hill (TIME, April 26, 1937). The consequent horror sped the bill through the House but did not weaken Southern Senators, who filibustered the measure to sleep, as they had done its predecessors. Last week Congressman William Meyers Colmer of Pascagoula, Miss, addressed himself to the 1940 bill's chief sponsor-white, Tammany-Irish Joe Gavagan, from Manhattan's black Harlem. Said Mr. Colmer, who as district attorney once saved a Negro killer from a mob: "Of course, this bill will pass the House. . . . And I think...