Word: barbero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy is making no more (except for target rounds). The missile cruisers Boston and Canberra are in service with their radar-controlled antiaircraft Terriers. The ancient battleship Mississippi, converted three years ago to a missile carrier, is a busy floating laboratory for missile development. Two conventional submarines. Tunny and Barbero, have been converted to missiles, and two more conversions are authorized. The Navy is asking funds for five more cruiser conversions, along with four new missile-launching frigates and eight destroyers. Arleigh Burke sees in the missile a chance that the battleship (the Navy has three afloat, 12 in mothballs...