Word: isa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matters, president of the Student Council and newly-elected chairman of the ISA in the United States, stated that plans were still in an incomplete state but that conferences in the future, similar to the recent one in Washington, would probably be held each year...
...Iowa, with 10,000 tons of additional protection and speed (designed for 35 knots compared to 27), isa faster, tougher version of the North Carolina type carrying nine 16-inch guns. More than any other U.S. ship, the Iowa is protected against aerial bombs, submarine torpedoes, surface shellfire. Her 200,000-h.p. engines are ten times as powerful as those of the old (1910) Wyoming. Her auxiliary power plant, the one that lights the lights and turns the turrets, churns up enough electricity for a city of 20,000-more horsepower (14,000) than a pre-World War I dreadnought...
...lights and star shells, then let fly with everything at the enemy cruisers, which could have easily blown the destroyers out of the water in a full-dress engagement. In last week's action four Allied destroyers-Britain's Sikh, Legion and Maori, and The Netherlands' Isaäc Sweers-did the whole job, escaped without damage to either men or ships. Said the highly pleased Admiralty: "A brilliant night action...
...Dutch Government-in-Exile, the Mediterranean victory had a double kick: the 1,628-ton Isaäc Sweers was launched, but incomplete, when Germany marched into The Netherlands. She was towed to a British shipyard, where she was completed...