Word: naval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Join the Navy and see the world" became more than a slogan to 89 members of the University Unit, Naval Reserve Training Corps, this summer, when they went on the annual training cruise down the Atlantic coast to Cuba and back...
...CHAMPLIN Lieut. U. S. N. U. S. Naval Academy Annapolis...
First to greet them was Admiral Sir William James, commander in chief of the Portsmouth naval base. Second and third were the Duke's trusted friend and former equerry, Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, and Sir Walter Monckton. The Duke & Duchess had planned to drive straight to Major Metcalfe's country place, but delay and blackout made them decide to spend the night in Portsmouth with Sir William. That evening, among war bulletins, British Broadcasting Corp. spent exactly ten of its preciously pronounced words on the arrival...
...crisis progressed, WMCA got a big hand from Manhattan columnists. One reported: "Several weeks ago the station hired an expert of naval code who stationed himself near the shortwave receiver of a local morning newspaper. As secret orders from shore to ship were flashed from England and Germany he quickly decoded them and rushed his findings to the microphone...
When modern nations go to war, they take their scientists with them. The technique of atom-splitting, for example, is not yet a part of military technology, but physicists who can split atoms have a bundle of special knowledge and special tricks with apparatus which military and naval technologists can use. From both London and Paris last week scientific laboratories were being moved to hideouts in the country. There was much secrecy about which scientists would do what, but the liaison between scientists and war was clear...