Word: wichitas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lined up 5,600 candidates for its first group. Specifications: single men, 21-to-26, with at least two years of college. Through the summer and fall the students got their seagoing foundation in ships of the Atlantic Fleet: the battleships Arkansas and New York, cruisers Quincy, Tuscaloosa, Wichita, Vincennes. After 25 days at sea they had the bare rudiments of navigation, gunnery, communications and seamanship, had also learned how to scrub their clothes white, how to face aft when they came over the side and salute the quarterdeck (where in early navies the ships carried their shrines and pagan...
...Philadelphia girl of Dutch descent, who bore him three daughters and a son. He set up a coffee and spice business in Kansas City, Mo., became a top sergeant in the National Guard in World War I. Then he hunted for oil in Texas - and found it, near Wichita Falls. He found more in Oklahoma and in California. In Louisiana he struck it really rich because he found not only plenty of oil around New Iberia but also Robert Maestri, cagey political boss of New Orleans...
Dallas' opportunity was an ICC decision three weeks ago permitting 804-mile Colorado & Southern Railway, which operates from Orin, Wyo. to Texline on the Texas border by way of Denver, to lease 902-mile Fort Worth & Denver City Railway, which runs from Dallas to Texline via Fort Worth, Wichita Falls and Amarillo. Big Burlington Lines control C. & S., which controls F. W. & D. C. Reason for the move was an estimated saving of $250,000 yearly by joint operation. But it meant the removal of F. W. & D. C.'s general offices from Fort Worth to Denver...
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Washington acted. At the State Department's instance, the Navy dispatched a second cruiser (the new, 10,000-ton Wichita) to Latin-American waters in the wake of the Quincy. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall gravely warned a House committee that the Regular Army and the National Guard should be prepared to sustain friendly regimes in Latin America (Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador), possibly "within a month or two." Discussed was a plan to set up a great Latin-American trade corporation, to be financed by the U. S. and to act as a buffer between a German-Italian Europe...