Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steamed west from the Formosa Strait's Pescadores Islands toward the China coast. It consisted of a creaking, World War II-type LSM, two small gunboats and a minesweeper. For two nights in a row it had turned back in the face of Communist gunfire before accomplishing its mission: delivering supplies and 400 Chinese Nationalist reinforcements to the island of Quemoy. This time some 30 newsmen and photographers were also aboard, among them TIME Correspondent Jim Bell. Bell's report...
Last January Lazard Freres & Co. and Chase International Investment Corp. sent a mission to Iran to set up a financial center to provide credits for investors. In southwestern Iran, the government authorized the U.S. Development and Resources Corp. founded by former TVA Chiefs David Lilienthal and Gordon Clapp, to work on plans for a $5 million dam, a 375,000-acre irrigation project, a sugar mill and refinery, Iran's first major electric transmission line, and a gas pipeline from the Agha Jari oilfield...
...Beefsteak Priority. Reducing that vulnerability is the top-priority enterprise in the Navy's program for 1958-and far beyond. "The primary mission of every combat ship in the Atlantic Fleet is antisubmarine," says Admiral Jerauld Wright, commander of the Atlantic Fleet. "Everything else is secondary." And Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke has placed a no-limit ceiling on the operations of Goblin Hunter Thach and his Task Group Alfa. "If Alfa wants beefsteak for breakfast," Burke ordered, "give 'em beefsteak...
...Army Jupiter-C rocket thundered up from Cape Canaveral, Fla. this week in a perfect blastoff. Its mission: to hurl the U.S.'s 37-lb. space satellite, Explorer V, into orbit to measure lethal solar rays in outer space. Three and a half hours later, the Army glumly announced that the rocket's upper stages had somehow malfunctioned, that Explorer V was not in orbit. Army's space score card to date: three satellites in-orbit in five tries...
...Urgent Mission. Next month Trieste will begin diving off San Diego, where the weather is fair and the bottom deep. Official purpose: "Study of the ocean's physical, biological, geological and chemical characteristics." Trieste's real mission may be more urgent: submarine warfare is clearly going deep, deep, deeper. Conventional subs now dive about 750 ft., and some advanced models are capable of 1,000 ft. One growing antisub problem is that present sound gear penetrates accurately to only about 800 ft. Another is that depth charges sink too slowly (14 ft. per second) to hit a fast...