Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cargo ships in 1940. Tying up with smart Bath Iron Works in Maine and the fabulous Henry Kaiser on the West Coast. Todd and associates now haye 16 yards building or repairing cargo boats and naval vessels as fast as they can. The first British ship was completed at Richmond. Calif, last month, only 13 months after the contract for the yard was signed...
Crime. In Manhattan, a gunman escaped from an $800 robbery after advising his victims that it would do the police no good to issue a radio alarm because he carried a portable receiving set. In Richmond a gunman held up a filling station, escaped after phoning his wife: "I'll be home to supper in a few minutes." In Chicago two gunmen robbed a bartender and four tavern customers of $51.55, then served drinks to the crowd, did a specialty dance, loaded their car with whiskey, wine and beer, passed out $1 bills, and departed...
Gratitude. In Richmond, Ind., John Count was released from jail after an eleven-day stay for intoxication. Back shortly with gifts for his excell mates, he was readmitted, reintoxicated...
...special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond and the Northern roads at Washington. Shuttling more than 150 loaded specials to the already crowded Washington gateway in four days, R.F. & P. train crews will earn juicy overtime checks...
Destroyers: Richmond, Burnham, Le Triomphant (Free French...