Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...type of Soviet rocket booster." Khrushchev laughed and jokingly suggested trading design information on Soviet boosters for designs of U.S. nuclear submarines and Polaris missiles, both of which he said he admired. He added that he would not give 10 kopeks for a license covering the U.S. atomic aircraft carrier or. for that matter, any surface warship, which he considered obsolete and merely coffins for their crews...
...kitchen. If she is careless about bathroom cleanliness (the bacilli are transmitted from fecal matter only through food and drink), she gives the youngsters an unwelcome and unexpected gift of typhoid. Their acute illnesses can be cured with chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). After this modern treatment so few become carriers, they create a negligible problem for the future. But grandma's long-standing carrier condition requires intensive and difficult treatment, which most of the elderly women refuse. It will take another generation. Dr. Smadel suggested, for typhoid...
Squadrons of supersonic F-100s and F-106s zoomed into Florida's Patrick and MacDill Air Force Bases. In the Caribbean were 10,000 Marines who had been about to go on maneuvers. McNamara ordered to active duty 24 troop carrier squadrons of the Air Force Reserve-more than...
...long obvious that the big (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.), handsome naval officer-among other things, he is called "Gorgeous George"-was headed for big things.* He flew Grumman fighters from the carrier Lexington, was a landing signal officer on the carrier Yorktown, executive officer of a squadron of PBY patrol planes. In 1943, he saw action in the Pacific as navigator and tactical officer aboard the newly commissioned Yorktown (the first carrier Yorktown went down in June 1942). He then held down an assortment of desk jobs in postwar Washington, and in 1950 was named operations officer...
...Pacific Fleet Commander Felix Stump. But in order to fulfill the old Navy tradition that an admiral's flag is never really earned until it has been flown at sea, Anderson asked for and got a reduction to two-star rank so that he could command a carrier division. He got the star back in 1959 when he took over command of the Sixth Fleet...