Word: pascagoula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what he later described as "a one-horse shop-one Negro and one mule," Ingalls built his blacksmith and forging business into Alabama's Ingalls Iron Works, biggest independent steel fabricator in the South. He branched out into shipbuilding, and wartime orders built his Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. of Pascagoula, Miss, into the largest shipyard on the Gulf Coast. Last year the combined enterprises grossed more than...
Lieut. Colonel Wilson Hawkins of Pascagoula, Miss., commanded the battalion from a grasshopper observation plane skimming overhead. The Pattons, each with a snarling tiger painted on the front, rumbled north out of a dry riverbed. Just short of Uijongbu, the column ran into trouble. Trying to bypass a tank trap, one Patton bogged down in a marshy field. Two more got stuck trying to pull it out. A fourth hit a mine; there was a deafening blast, a big puff of smoke and a cry over the radio: "Man wounded...
...Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.; Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s yards at Sparrows Point, Md. and Quincy, Mass.; and Sun Oil Co.'s Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester...
...recondition three mothball Victory ships was the biggest contract Puget Sound shipbuilders had seen in several years. Shipyard employment has dropped from a wartime peak of 90,000 in Seattle alone to a handful of 2,600 workers in the whole state of Washington. Along the Gulf Coast, Pascagoula's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. was the only yard with new construction under way last week. And Ingalls is building just one ship: an experimental model of a highspeed (18½ knots) cargo steamer which the Maritime Board hopes to use as a prototype for future cargo vessels...