Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, at week's end, the House Appropriations Committee recommended funds for six additional Polaris subs-making nine altogether-instead of the Administration's request for two more. And Admiral Burke coolly announced the formation, effective July 1, of the Navy's first Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine Squadron, with operational headquarters in New London and staff headquarters in Washington to press Polaris subs and to "develop operational plans...
...last week, 16 years after the Solomons, Don Felt got another big moment in the Pacific. In the years between, he had won the Legion of Merit commanding the light carrier Chenango off Okinawa (1945), worked up through the postwar Pentagon and carrier commands to boss the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet (1956), pinned on his fourth star as Admiral Arleigh Burke's Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1956-58). Last week he was named Commander in Chief, Pacific, with 500,000 men, 400 ships, 2,500 planes, to do the job of deploying U.S. power and backstopping U.S. diplomacy from...
...fleet of three Super-H Constellations is the number required to operate daily transatlantic flights in each direction-first step in the Irish blueprint for the expansion of its air service network to the West, and fulfillment of Ireland's role in air travel as the gateway to Europe...
...Concentrations. Fortnight ago the U.S. announced that it had solved the re-entry problem for ballistic missiles, but Aleksandr Nesmeyanov claimed the same thing for his own country back in 1956. The Russians set off the first lithium isotope H-bomb, plan an atom-powered airplane, have the largest fleet of floating oceanography laboratories, now intend to build the world's biggest (220 in.) telescope. Beneath such tangible accomplishments-the hardware showpieces of science-lies a vast network of pure and applied research that is as energetic as any to be found...
Last week, for the first time in this century, Argentina's navy fired in anger at a foreign target-maybe. President Arturo Frondizi called a press conference at the Casa Rosada to announce the news. The President disclosed that an Argentine squadron had sighted a periscope while on fleet exercises in Golfo Nuevo, a quiet Patagonian bay, and carried out four depth-charge attacks when the sub ignored the warning to surface as required by international...