Word: carrier
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...carrier is the third vessel to bear the name. The original Constellation, a 36-gun frigate, the Navy's oldest ship, is now a museum piece at Fort McHenry, Baltimore. Her namesake, a sloop of war, was built in 1855-although some historians insist that this was the original ship rebuilt and restored. Another Constellation, scheduled to be a battle cruiser, was scrapped after her keel was laid, as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. * On March 19, 1945, in the Inland Sea, the flag carrier Franklin was hit by two Japanese bombs, engulfed in flames...
Ironically, Constellation was unable to defend herself. The ship has built-in fire-fighting equipment to flood its fuel compartments and cover the four-acre deck with foam in case of heavy attack.* But at dockside, the carrier was most vulnerable to fire damage, and entirely dependent on outside help. At the naval inquiry, Lieut. Milano admitted that 42 small fires had been snuffed out aboard Constellation before last week's holocaust...
...national colors fluttered aloft last week on Brazil's first aircraft carrier, the 17,000-ton Minas Gerais*, her new skipper, Captain Helio Leoncio Martins, called the ship "a powerful arm for the defense of Brazil and the Americas." While he spoke, the first of 58 pilots who will fly from the carrier's canted deck were arriving at Key West, Fla., Naval Air Station for six months' training on the twelve Grumman 52F tracker planes and six Sikorsky 555 helicopters donated by the U.S. as the Minas Gerais' air group. By May, the flattop...
Strategic Waters. In deciding how to employ its carrier, Brazil's navy had been influenced by a little-publicized but increasingly effective U.S. drive aimed at mobilizing the hand-me-down ships of South America's navies. If war should occur, the U.S. Navy's sub hunters will need all the help they can get. During World War II, German U-boats sliced into the shipping lanes, even managed to cut off Brazil's northeast bulge from Rio except by heavy Allied convoy. The new danger is Soviet Russia's fleet...
...throat ailment kept him from preaching. At the time Dean was born, the fourth of five children, the elder Rusk was scratching a living as a rural schoolteacher and a small cotton farmer in Cherokee County. When Dean was four, his father got a job as a mail carrier in Atlanta, and the family moved to a frame house on Whitehall Street, just beyond the edge of the Negro district. The children wore underwear made at home out of flour sacks, often trudged along the nearby railroad tracks in winter to gather stray lumps of coal. But the parents...