Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft carrier Wasp began her precarious trip back to port after her mid-Atlantic collision with the destroyer-minesweeper Hobson (TIME, May 5), it seemed doubtful that she could be repaired in less than three months. Her whole lower bow had been chewed out, and a section of her hull 75 ft. long and 30 ft. high was missing. It was a blow to the Navy: ship, crew and air group had been painstakingly readied to replace another carrier in the Mediterranean...
York area, began an audacious piece of improvisation. While the Wasp was still far at sea, he sent hull-repair experts racing out on a destroyer to intercept her; they surveyed the damaged bow and radioed their findings. In New York, Admiral Cowdrey ordered a matching bow section removed from the Wasp's sister ship, the Hornet-which was being modernized at Brooklyn-and floated to Bayonne, N.J. on a barge. The new bow was fitted into place after the battered Wasp was drydocked...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Bishop Misbehaves, with Charles Laughton, Josephine Hull, Vanessa Brown...
...ready for the new production challenge. Its engineers have already perfected a new-model medium tank, the T-48, which the Army believes will be the best thing of its class yet made in the U.S. Since battle experience has shown that most fatal tank hits are on the hull, Chrysler has cast the T-48's hull in a single piece for added strength. It is designed with sloping sides to deflect enemy shells. The T-48's high-velocity 90-mm. gun has more punch than the 90-mm. mounted on some U.S. World...
Died. Dr. Clark Leonard Hull, 67, Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale University and author (Principles of Behavior, Hypnosis and Suggestibility); of a heart attack; in New Haven. In his lifelong effort to bring psychology closer to exact science, Dr. Hull contended that mathematics can be used for an orderly and scientific measurement of human behavior...