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[Letter from Baker, Botts, Andrew & Parish to Imperial Sugar Company, April 8, 1953]

Description: Letter from Baker, Botts, Andrew & Parish to Imperial Sugar Company discussing the court decision in Park Steamship Company vs. Cities Service Oil Company and how Imperial Sugar Company's liability is affected. The charterer is said to be liable to the vessel under the "safe berth" clause. The current insurance policy Imperial has is not a protection and indemnity policy. Baker, Botts, Andrew & Parish believe Imperial may have some liability under the new court ruling.
Date: April 8, 1953
Creator: Imperial Sugar Company
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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[Corpus Christi, Texas: Home of the Reconstructed Colombus Fleet and the USS Lexington Carrier]

Description: This film is unedited television footage regarding events and sites in Corpus Christi, Texas. A short, edited news segment is included at the end of the video. In the first segment, the Boy Scouts of America recite the Pledge of Allegiance on the deck of the USS Lexington carrier. Fishermen on fishing boats show their catches of squid and shrimp. Keith Arnold, the President CEO at the Corpus Christi area Convention and Visitor's Bureau (CVB), talks about major attractions of the area. The … more
Date: unknown
Duration: 51 minutes 28 seconds
Partner: UNT Media Library
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[Corpus Christi, Texas: Tourists Onboard the USS Lexington Carrier]

Description: This film is unedited television footage regarding events and sites in Corpus Christi, Texas. The majority of the film is made up of shots of the interior rooms, controls, and exterior flight deck of the USS Lexington (CV-16) aircraft carrier, a World War II warship belonging to the United States Navy. John Bowen, the Operations Officer of Torpedo Squadron in 1943, explains military life onboard the Lexington. Jerry Chipman, the ship's Executive Director at the time of filming, discusses the sh… more
Date: unknown
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 48 seconds
Partner: UNT Media Library

Folding Bunk Stairs

Description: Patent for stair-step that can be folded up, to be used in bunk bed situations such as in sleeping cars of trains.
Date: December 26, 1916
Creator: Mey, Ella E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sleeping-Car Seat and Berth.

Description: Patent for a sleeping car berth, which has pneumatic elevators for raising and lowering the top bunk, and folds the bunks and sheets between the car seats during the day.
Date: August 6, 1907
Creator: Butz, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Berth.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car berth. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a car formed with an opening, recess, or compartment, of a berth consisting of a series of parallel slats connected together by flexible connections and adapted to be rolled up . . . and end supports adapted to be independently folded each upon itself, so that they may be concealed below the rolled berth, the inner side of the berth and the inner ends of the supports being secured within the opening" (line… more
Date: September 27, 1887
Creator: Tull, Francis Schales
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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