Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proud to serve under him again. What is expected of the American fighting man of today ? Is he expected to follow General Dean's suggestion and carry some deadly poison to take if capture seems imminent? Are the quartermasters to issue cyanide pills along with other combat gear? Are we, a Christian nation, now to become devoted to harakiri? Ridiculous! But that is the only logical sequence if Colonel Schwa-ble is not completely exonerated and restored to a full-duty status...
Choice of Words. These were the latest incidents in a long and baffling epidemic of naval sabotage that has stirred up the British press, public and Parliament and embarrassed the Admiralty. The run of incidents stretches back to pre-Korean war days: sand slipped into lubricating systems and steering gear, wiring cut, gauges and indicators smashed, equipment and ammunition thrown overboard at sea. Early this year, a stoker on the light aircraft-carrier Ocean was caught and sentenced to 15 months for smashing pressure gauges, sight glasses, clocks, lights and other equipment. When H.M.S. Eagle, Britain's newest, biggest...
...types of map projections to make the charting of the ocean more accurate; specialists have designed and redesigned the Nansen bottles--metal cases that close automatically at a specified depth trapping a sample of water that is later tested for salinity. Similar experiments with underwater cameras and offshore diving gear have led to a constant revision and improvement of equipment...
...glows?" I refer to your color spread on U.S. air power. You owe the millions of photographers of the country an explanation of what lit up a carrier so brilliantly that you can take a night color photo, obviously from an airplane. Are those lights on the side standard gear on the new carriers...
When the decision was made to gear the U.S. military establishment to atomic necessity, John A. Hannah, Assistant Defense Secretary for Manpower, who is on leave as president of Michigan State College, was assigned to head a committee studying the National Guard system and to submit his findings to the National Security Council by April 1-but he has already fired without waiting to see the whites of the militiamen's eyes...