Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after TIME hit the newsstands with the story Williams received a long distance telephone call from the U.S. Navy supervisor of shipbuilding at Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Ala. The Navy, which no longer needed it, had just the ship for him: a new type LSD (Landing Ship Dock), almost completed, and available to the highest bidder. Williams bid high and got it. The LSD, now being converted, was bigger and better (e.g., it is equipped with the latest and best steam turbines) than the ferry he had ordered, and, Williams figures, puts him eight months ahead of schedule. The deal...
...LSD (Landing Ship, Dock), a 450-ft. floating dock for use after assault (the first picture of the completed ship was released last week...