Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroyer's task to perform the maneuver with her in such a manner as to be instantly ready to save any pilot who went into the sea from a bad landing. It was also her task to avoid the carrier's 27,100-ton hull. Last week, before a board of inquiry at Bayonne, N.J., Lieut. William A. Hoefer Jr., 27, an ex-merchant mariner and senior surviving officer of the Hobson, told what happened in the moments before the Wasp rammed and sank the destroyer in the worst peacetime disaster of modern U.S. naval history...
Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins hustled the design to a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The J.C.S. ran it through the wringer of the interservice Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, headed by able General John E. Hull. The W.S.E.G. approved. The Navy, wise to the ways of big guns, pitched in to help with the construction of the first shell and first gun. The first test (made without an atomic charge in the shell) was a shattering failure, but after subsequent tests were successful, Collins gave the order for large-scale production...
...purpose of Acheson's trip is to assure Latin American countries that the U.S. has not forgotten them. Latinos vividly remember the days of Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles, when contacts between the U.S. and its sister republics were closely maintained at the top level. On the strength of such relations, the U.S. drew heavily on Latin America in World War II for essential raw materials, afterwards worked with the Latino delegates in founding the U.N. and in establishing, at Rio in 1947, a regional security system that became the model for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...often twiddle the short wave about," explained Alan Blackman, 36, a fishworker of Hull, England. Listening in at 7:10 one night last week, Blackman heard: "Urgent! Will BBC contact Sir Hugh Cairns at Oxford 58136, ask him to telephone Dr. Pierres, Colombo (Ceylon) 9351? It concerns life or death of our Prime Minister...
...candidate: W. J. Bryan) declared for a constitutional amendment permitting an income tax. The Republican platform did not, but the candidate, William Howard Taft, announced that he was for it. In the heavily G.O.P. Congress of 1909, the income-tax group, led by a fiery Tennessean named Cordell Hull, introduced their measure-aimed, as Hull said, at the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The leading "plutocrat" of the Senate, Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, first tried desperately to stave off the bill, finally offered the constitutional amendment legalizing an income tax. Hull and his group thought that...