Word: keels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left standard jets gasping for air at its 40,000 foot operating altitude; even the F-86, which had grabbed the world's speed record, could not keep up with it at this height. The tests convinced Secretary Johnson and Congress, in that order; on April 23, the keel of the "United States" was ordered off the ways...
...Navy's postwar battle with the Air Force ended abruptly last week, with the airmen slow-rolling overhead in triumphant victory. Less than a week after the centerplates had been dropped into the keel of the 65,000-ton supercarrier United States, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson issued a curt order "discontinuing construction of the vessel . . . at the least possible cost to the Government."" The decision meant only one thing: from now on the Air Force will take care of long-range strategic bombing; the Navy will be. held to the job of keeping the overseas supply lines open...
There was even $43 million in the bill for the Navy's controversial 65,000-ton, $189 million supercarrier, from which the Navy hopes to fly atom-carrying bombers in competition with the Army's B-36. And this week the keel was laid without ceremony at Newport News, Va. (One flying admiral put the case for the A-bomb carrier in horsy terms: "You don't ride your racehorse to the Kentucky Derby; you carry...
Last week in Quincy, Mass, the keel was laid for American Export Lines' Independence, biggest (20,000 tons) U.S. passenger liner to be built in a decade. She and a sister ship, the Constitution, will be built by the Bethlehem Steel Co. at a cost of $46,800,000 between them. They will carry 1,000 passengers apiece, and will be the first big passenger carriers to be air-conditioned from stem to stern. Operating between New York and Naples and Genoa, they will add 60,000 berths a year to Atlantic travel. They can be converted to troopships...
...Camden, NJ. the keel of another new liner was laid, that of the President Jackson, by the New York Shipbuilding Corp. The ship is the first of three $12 million, smokestackless streamliners for the American President Lines' round-the-world service...