Army & Navy - Miss-proof Sponsor

"Christine" is making good. This week she will christen two more tugboats at the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, N.Y. Conceived to simplify wartime launchings. "Christine" is a new device (a bottle-holding arm on a pivot) that showers the champagne with precision, has not yet (in eight performances) jinxed a ship with an unwetted sponsoring.

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