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Venezuela led the way. Midway in a stampede of American republics came the U.S. resumption of "normal diplomatic relations" with the military regime which it had so long and so loudly denounced as fascist. Britain, relieved and not unmindful of beef, added her spoonful of honey...
With a notable lack of fuss, the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. last week launched Hull No. 439. To the U.S. Navy, Hull No. 439 was the aircraft carrier Midway, biggest warship in the world...
...sleek, V-shaped hull, the 45,000-ton Midway has enough electric power to light up a city of 1,000,000, enough steel for 25,000 autos. It is wider and almost half again as heavy as the Essex class carriers, now the first line craft of the U.S. fleets. But the tin-hatted, horn-handed men who built the Midway are accustomed to superlatives. They have long bragged that: 1) Newport News is the biggest U.S. shipyard; 2) its sharp-eyed, terrier-like boss, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, 72, is by all odds the best builder of warships...
Newport News did build good ships. Its first, the tug Alvah H. Clark, still chuffs up & down the James River, helped shepherd the Midway (see cut) from the dry dock in which it was built to the outfitting pier downstream. But the yard could not show a profit until Ferguson joined the company, after Huntington died and the yard had passed to his heirs...
Open to all civilian and Navy undergraduates in the College, the Class of 1948 Spring Jubilee will come on May 26, midway between cumulative grades and final exams, it was decided last night at a '48 Class Committee meeting...