Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except in combat, oil-burning warships generally steam slowly, to conserve fuel. Nuclear ships can cruise around the earth at top speed, and reach their home ports with their nuclear bunkers still undrained. This is an enormous tactical advantage. A nuclear task force can stay at sea for months, always maintaining a speed that makes it a difficult target...
...combat one of the worst U.S. outbreaks of anthrax in a quarter-century, Oklahoma threw National Guard roadblocks around Craig and Ottawa counties to prevent shipments of livestock, began vaccination of more than 60,000 cattle. Veterinarians working 16-hour days each vaccinated 788 to 1,000 animals a day. At least 200 cattle were dead of the disease; so far, no cases have spread to humans...
...vaccination prospects sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service. Nub of the problem: the U.S. population has no immunity against this new mutant strain (TIME, June 24), can gain immunity only from contracting the disease itself or from preventive inoculation with a new vaccine prepared especially to combat it. Despite the best efforts of medical men and vaccine manufacturers around the world, there will not be time enough to immunize more than a fraction of the U.S. population before the disease strikes in force...
...late Forrest Sherman) learned to fly at 47, took command of the Lexington in 1940. A cool leader under fire, he was a hard-hitting senior task-group commander within the Fast Carrier Task Force, in one four-month period destroyed 350 enemy aircraft, 46 enemy ships, in his combat-starred Navy career won three Navy Crosses...
Bernstein urged putting an end to Britian's "transitional restrictions" on free conversion of sterling into gold and dollars, since, he said, de facto convertability already exists in New York and Zurich. A reserve currency must be convertabile, he said. International institutions, such as the Monetary Fund, can combat drains on gold and dollar reserves, he added...