Word: battleship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vadis. A German army barracks during the war, Cinedtta had been stripped of all electrical equipment, and its sound stages had been smashed and gutted. A hurry call for Metro's own big generator went out to Hollywood and the Italian government lent two more from the torpedoed battleship Vittorio Veneto...
Three and a half months after Captain William D. Brown had run the battleship Missouri aground at 15 knots in the familiar waters of Chesapeake Bay, a Navy court-martial meted out his punishment. Captain Brown, 47, was dropped back 250 numbers in his grade, thus putting him that many rungs lower on the promotion list. Captain Brown's sentence had been reduced from 300 numbers by the reviewing admiral and the case would get further review. But practically, as far as any further advancement went, Captain Brown had himself run hard aground...
...looks very much as if everyone is simply fascinated by the idea of 'the bigger the better.' There are some examples in the history of the world that should lead us to question this view. We should not forget the dinosaur . . . Indeed, we should not forget the battleship, now almost extinct...
Homeward bound and off the mouth of the Amazon one day in 1898, Slocum sighted the battleship Oregon heading toward him. On the last lap of her dash from the Pacific to get into the Spanish-American War, the Oregon hoisted the signals "C B T" which meant "Are there any men-of-war about?" To show which kind of warships she was looking for, the Oregon broke out a Spanish flag. Joshua Slocum answered "No." He could not resist adding: "Let us keep together for mutual protection." The Oregon's only acknowledgment was to dip her flag three...
Most of these magazines have stressed one point: that the armed forces' proposed budget of $13 billion for the fiscal year 1951 won't be enough. Some of them have run colorful tabular diagrams, matching up precise little battleship and airplane and infantry-man symbols in two columns--U. S. and U.S.S.R. In every case, the U. S. has come out way second best...