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...Newport News, Va., Mrs. James Forrestal, widow of the first Secretary of Defense, christened the supercarrier, named in her husband's honor. The dreamboat, wide enough to have the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth placed side by side on her flight deck, moved 35 feet in a flooded drydock. In a year she would be ready for action. The Forrestal's cost, with planes: more than a third of a billion dollars (about $372 million). The Navy has three more supercarriers on order, plans another in the upcoming budget, hopes eventually...
Towards the end of May, the 16,000-ton Polish luxury liner Batory moved into drydock at Hebburn-on-Tyne. That night the British harbor pilot, Harry Leslie, had dinner with cheery, gold-toothed Captain Jan Cwiklinski in his two-room suite below the bridge. But when Leslie went back on board two weeks later, the captain was missing. "The officers gave me to understand he was sick on shore," he said, "but . . . there was a studied avoidance of any mention...
...trip between the China Sea ports. He had reached a sort of understanding with the Lee Hong's captain and crew. O'Brien, who was once a ship's engineer, may get a paying berth aboard the ferry if a vacancy occurs. The ship went into drydock for its annual overhaul; O'Brien obligingly supervised the repairs. "Since I expect to be on this tub for some time yet." he said last week, "I want her to be seaworthy...
...Launch & Drydock. But he also found that despite the billions spent on the U.S. Merchant Marine, the fleet was a bad second in size to Britain's, and in poor shape. Cochrane wangled $350 million to build 35 Mariner cargo ships, the first new class of cargo ships built by the board since the war. The new class is bigger (12,500 deadweight tons) and faster (20 knots) than World War II's Victory ships. As the first Mariner slid down the ways last month, it was plain that the $350 million would be only a down payment...
Although he was confined to a Reno hospital bed last week, Nevada's blustering Senator Pat McCarran still managed -somewhat like the Queen Elizabeth whistling in drydock-to issue a blast at the State Department. At first glance, it seemed fairly routine: the Senator noted with alarm that 18 leftist U.S. labor leaders got visas for England, France and Italy last spring and then went blithely on to Moscow, took part in the Reds' May Day ceremonies and issued anti-American propaganda...