Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spread across four columns, and in his clear, quiet prose, Berger wrote the most moving account of all. At last, wrote Berger, "it was nine minutes after ten under a brilliant summer sky when the Andrea Doria, in a final plunge, went down in 225 feet of water, her hull glistening, her shroud a rain of spray caused by her violent death . . . There was no sound from the rescue ships, only a murmur, a sound...
...European refineries, but have proved their economy as well: they can haul oil halfway around the world for 3? a gallon, less than the prewar cost. Reason: a 50,000-tonner carries few more crewmen than a 16,600 wartime T-2 tanker, gets more speed, thanks to better hull design, for every unit of horsepower...
Died. Charlotte Carr, 66, gusty, bushy-browed social worker, successor to the late Jane Addams as head (1937-43) of Chicago's famed slum settlement Hull House, head of all home relief in teeming New York City during the hard-pressed mid-'30s of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...eminence promises to be short-lived, however. By the end of 1956 the U.S. Navy will have in commission or under construction a total of nine nuclear subs. In the seventh of these, SSN 585, nuclear power will be combined for the first time with the revolutionary teardrop hull of the experimental U.S.S. Albacore-a combination that will give SSN 585 a whole new magnitude of underwater speed and agility...
...that Prime Min ister Churchill first opposed the plan, then apparently came around to it, and that Churchill upbraided the reluctant Anthony Eden: "I don't want you running back to the War Cabinet trying to unsell this proposal before I get there." White also noted that Secretary Hull complained bitterly during this meeting against his former Under Secretary, Sumner Welles, who "seemed to be operating a second State Department." (Morgenthau and White, who had drawn up the plan for Germany without Hull's knowledge, were in that case operating a third State Department...