Word: hull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo, General Mark Clark, completing 17 months as commander of American and U.N. forces in the Far East, went down to the airport to greet his successor, General John E. Hull, and gave him an enthusiastic welcome: "Boy, am I glad to see you!" Next day, the generals set off on a two-day inspection tour of South Korea, where President Syngman Rhee presented Clark with the Taeguk Order, South Korea's highest military award, for "eminently meritorious conduct" in the Korean war. Before flying home to the U.S., Clark was asked about rumors that he might become...
...night of May 13, 1953, a British revenue officer in Hong Kong, watching the midnight sailing of the Hong Kong-Macao ferry, spotted a man swimming in the dark water alongside the ferry's hull...
...When the officer shouted at him, the swimmer dived and escaped. Inspectors who got the bags out of the water found that they contained American tool bits, of a type in great demand in Communist China. The Communist frogman had hoped to attach them to the ferry's hull, for the journey out of Hong Kong's territorial waters. After that, smuggling them into Red China would have been easy...
...Navy's submarine service. Last week, at Groton, Conn., Navy Secretary Robert Anderson presided at the keel-laying† of a new Seawolf, the second U.S. atomic-powered submarine. The first, the Nautilus, will be launched in January, and workmen were busy hammering and welding on its hull, while guests gathered on the adjoining ways for the Seawolf's ceremony...
...Perth survivors was Engineer Lieut. Frank Gillan. When the second torpedo hit and Perth keeled over, he was trapped far below decks. Only perfect presence of mind and the lucky chance that his Mae West was only half-inflated saved him. As the water rose in the sinking hull. Gillan calmly let himself float upward with it through the pitch-dark passages of the ship, the air in his life jacket buoying him gently, but not so much as to force him against the overhead, where he could not maneuver. After a few awful minutes, he drifted...