Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incident that happened in 1904, when an American named Perdicarris was kidnaped in Morocco by a bandit named Rasuli, with whom it was suspected that the Sultan of Morocco was friendly. President Roosevelt, instead of starting negotiations that would have lasted until the death of Perdicarris, sent a cruiser to Morocco and the same day a cable to the Sultan saying: 'I want Perdicarris alive or Rasuli dead. I sent a cruiser to Morocco today.' Perdicarris was released immediately.*The attention of the children will be called to the contrast of the course taken by the great Roosevelt...
...Generally accepted version: 1) Raisuii had already planned to release Perdicaris before the message was even sent; 2) the telegram went not to the Sultan but to the U.S. consul in Tangier; 3) it was written by Secretary of State John Hay, who did not mention a cruiser; 4) T. R. used it as a dramatic device to stir up the languid Republican National Convention in Chicago. Adds Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis: "It remained for historians later to discover that Roosevelt knew when he authorized the message that the American citizenship of Perdicaris was questionable...
...wars and 3) to give precise support to U.S. diplomacy at precise points. Such a force-in-being, constantly under re-evaluation and re-equipment, demands such phenomenal expenditures as $15 million for an atomic-submarine power plant (about as much as a World War II light cruiser), $8,000,000 for an intercontinental B-52 jet bomber (as much as 42 World War II 6-175), $3 billion for an intercontinental missile program that will usher the U.S. into the costlier age of space...
Korea brought new crises, bigger budgets and a truce in the interservice knifing. In December 1952 President-elect Eisenhower and Defense Secretary Designate Charles E. Wilson made their trip to Korea. At Iwo Jima, in Korea, aboard the cruiser Helena (where Ike gathered prospective members of his Cabinet) and at Honolulu, Radford-as the Navy's Commander in Chief, Pacific-expounded his theories on military diplomacy and on the problems of Asia...
Sales competition was bringing down the price of family inboards to meet the outboards. Carlisle tagged its 17-ft. Aqua-Queen cruiser with new compact Fageol VIP 35-h.p. engine at $1,995. Ulrichsen priced its 21-ft. Sea Skiff with twin 60-h.p. Chris Craft engines at $2,895. For do-it-yourselfers, there were kits ranging from an 8-ft. pram at $52 to a 23-ft. cabin cruiser for $879, about half what each would cost assembled...