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Bruce Anchor Co has its primary role in the very large anchor business, producing mooring anchors and permanent installation types for heavy industry, such as oilrigs. On the back of this reputation, the Bruce small boat anchor type was initially very successful, and represented some significant improvements over the CQR. It is no longer produced.
The following is a list of notable current and past news anchors, correspondents, hosts, regular contributors and meteorologists from the CNN, CNN International and HLN news networks. [ 1 ] Executives
The term can be applied to many nautical situations: Foul hawse — when a ship lying to two anchors gets the cables crossed. [2]Foul bottom — in reference to a seafloor that has poor qualities for securing an anchor, such as hard rocks, coral, wreckage, or other impediments that would make securing or unsecuring an anchor difficult or impossible.
As ships and their anchors grew in size, the anchor cable or chain would be too big to go around the capstan. Also, a wet cable or chain would be difficult to manage. A messenger would then be used as an intermediate device. This was a continuous loop of cable or chain which would go around the capstan.
Cronkite was born on November 4, 1916, in Saint Joseph, Missouri, [8] the son of Helen Lena (née Fritsche) and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite, a dentist. [9] [10] [11]Cronkite lived in Kansas City, Missouri, until he was 10, when his family moved to Houston, Texas. [10]
Katherine Bear Tur [1] (/ ˈ t ɜːr /; born October 26, 1983) [1] is an American author, and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News.Tur is an anchor for MSNBC, where since 2021 she has hosted Katy Tur Reports.
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She worked at CICT-TV in Calgary, as a producer from 1992 to 1993 and as evening news anchor and business correspondent from 1993 to 1995. [4] Banfield won two Iris Awards in 1994 in the categories of Best News Documentary and Best of Festival. [4] Banfield was a freelance associate producer for ABC's World News Tonight during her tenure at ...