Word: bremerton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebel radio stridently claimed that the rebels had somewhere found a two-plane air force that had bombed Bandung, and a "navy" that was maneuvering in the Strait of Malacca. But Bandung was reported unbombed and the navy unsighted. In Singapore a U.S. squadron consisting of the cruiser Bremerton and two destroyers stood by, ready to evacuate U.S. civilians from the rubber plantations and oilfields if the war really hotted...
...Bobtailed Cruiser." At the commissioning in Bremerton Navy Yard, the Navy appropriately christened its prototype ship the U.S.S. Carronade, after a snub-nosed naval cannon developed in Scotland in 1779. The Carronade looks sawed in half-it has an awesome, cruiser-like bow with eight rocket launchers planted on a forward deck which slants downward to the steel-skinned superstructure, then ends abruptly. It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser...
...broad policy and leave the details to the admirals. Since, as every Pentagonian knows, broad policy is frequently determined by details, Anderson considered that he was getting a well-known form of Pentagon runaround. Wallin was relieved of his command and transferred to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Wash...
Howard Adler, New York City; Guy L. Barron, Detroit, Mich.; David H. Bodiker, Dayton, Ohio; Robert A. Bowman, New York City; Harold B. Downey, Elmhurst, Ill.; George B. Doyle, Worcester, Mass.; John S. Getch, Ashley, Pa.; Lewis W. Goetz, Watsoka, Ill.; Roger A. Golde, Chicago, Ill.; John W. Hurst, Bremerton, Wash.; Warren Kantrowitz, Natick, Mass.; Arthur G. Siler, Orinda, Calif.; Laurence A. Stein, Jersey City, N. J.; John W. Van Doren, Akron, Ohio...
Those selected were: Chairman, John W. Hurst of Bremerton, Washington and Stoughton Hall; Vice Chairman, Dwight L. Holloway of Seattle, Washington and Hollis Hall; Publicity Director, Stanley S. Shuman of Brookline and Wigglesworth Hall; and Secretary-Treasurer, Jack D. Watson of Pembroke and Weld Hall...