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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to thank TIME [June 15] for the fine article on the submarine George Washington. However, we would like to point out that the atomic submarines George Washington, Triton, U.S.S. Skate, U.S.S. Skipjack, U.S.S. Seawolf and U.S.S. Nautilus, all built in Groton, were built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp...
...nation could and would survive-and the extent of survival would depend directly on the number of preparations made in advance. Inexpensive but effective civil defense-of which the U.S. now has practically none-"would save tens of millions of human lives," said Chairman Holifield. If every American family built its own basement shelter, added OCDM, atom deaths would be cut by 12 million and injuries by another 12 million. (OCDM is now distributing 50 million books showing how to construct a do-it-yourself shelter for $175.) Furthermore, said Military Evaluations Chief Walter E. Strope of the Naval Radiological...
...family's summer home in New Rochelle, N.Y., Columbus learned from the family carpenter how to use tools, built his first boat (called the Sponge, because it leaked) at the age of eleven. When he was in prep school he was spending school vacations sailing in waters as dangerous as the Bay of Fundy...
...something to do with the banking business. But the sea was in his blood, and in his junior year he discovered Professor Henry Bigelow, who was then officially a zoologist but whose real interest was oceanography. Columbus gave up all thought of banking. He ordered the schooner Chance built in Nova Scotia, on graduation set off in her for the icy coast of Labrador with a crew of college students on his first oceanographic trip. The student-scientists fraternized with Eskimos, exploded firecrackers in one another's beds, and otherwise acted their ages, but the Chance, loaded with real...
Iselin helped Bigelow plan the Atlantis, which is still the only U.S. vessel to be designed as an oceanographic ship. The Atlantis was built in Copenhagen, and Iselin sailed her back to Woods Hole as her first skipper...