Word: dahlgren
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Mark III, which was begun in May, 1946, has been built for the Bureau of the Ordnance of the U. S. Navy to be used at the Naval Proving Ground Command at Dahlgren, Virginia. It is anticipated that testing operations will have been completed by the first of the year and the machine will go to the Navy at that time...
With a minimum of whoopdedo, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis graduated it's first Negro. Conspicuous in the spread of crisp white uniforms at Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown...
Mark II, the Aiken Relay Calculator, has reached its final destination and operating post at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren Virginia, after a three year residence in the Computation Laboratory here...
...mammoth "Mark II" computator, which technicians have been testing for the past year, will be shipped to the Dahlgren Proving Ground in Virginia within a month. The machine has, resided in Gordon McKay engineering lab since construction began...
...reason: the Academy's lock-step method of teaching. Daily, across the Yard, in & out of Luce, Dahlgren, Isherwood, Maury Halls, squads of midshipmen march to get their marks, file into class, sit down, open books, stand up, recite, sit down, stand up, march to the next class. The question (said Annapolis' critics on the inside) is not what they know but what they momentarily remember...