Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy atomic experts have been studying hull design and structural stresses. The Navy wants to make at least two tests: 1) of an atomic bomb exploding above the surface; 2) of a bomb exploding underwater at determined depths. For the tests to be worth anything, the Navy figures it will need some 20 to 30 ships-Fleet Admiral Ernest King suggested 80 to 100. Enemy vessels may be used, but the Navy also wants to measure the effect on its own construction...
...back across the Pacific, rested briefly at San Diego and went on to New York Harbor. She was tucked away in an East River pier, her carcass decently out of-sight. Agents came aboard her to calculate coldly the amount of aluminum in her superstructure, the steel in her hull. Officers and men learned then that old Pat was through. They were not bitter. More than 200 other veterans of World War II (about 600,000 tons of warships) were also marked for the scrap heap. Considering the life she had led, Pat had lasted a long time...
...marks from Woman's Home Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry Ford (tied for fifth place), ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, Crooner Bing Crosby and Comedian Bob Hope (also tied...
...instigation of China and Brazil (and of ex-U.S. Secretary of State Hull), 17 nations have approved the idea of a new international health organization. Last week 30 U.S. citizens-including Surgeon General Thomas Parran, Mrs. La Fell Dickinson, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and Dr. Victor Heiser of the National Association of Manufacturers-met to talk over what the U.S. wants the organization to be. The talks will serve as preparation for an international conference to be held, probably, next spring...
Argentine democrats rallied, not to the colonels as they had at Hull's prodding, but behind Braden and the U.S., and they were still going strong last week...