Word: naval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain George N. Barker will be stationed here as professor of Naval Science and Tactics next year, replacing Captain Chester H. J. Keppler who will return to active service as commanding officer of a new squadron of destroyer leaders, the U. S. Navy Department announced yesterday...
Head of the Naval Science Department from 1934 to 1937, next year will be the second time that Captain Barker has taught at Harvard. He was relieved by Captain Keppler in 1937 and was stationed as commanding officer of the U. S. S. Houston, which has frequently been reserved for President Roosevelt's private...
...principle that all men are brothers after their bodies are broken, a U. S. Naval physician and a Belgian Army doctor in 1921 conceived that military medicos should cooperate in peace to promote healing in war. Last week Captain William Seaman Bainbridge and Colonel Jules Voncken, founders of the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, had a reunion in Washington with colleagues from 33 other countries...
...half years ago Dr. Glenn E. Willhelmy of St. Louis, a Naval Reserve dentist, reported to the Navy that such ear troubles, along with attacks of vertigo (". . . if mild the pilot does not mention it ... if severe, he crashes"), were most often found in older airmen. His conclusion was that normal wear and loss of teeth make jaws shut out of position, cause a partial closure of the Eustachian tubes. His remedy: an up-building of teeth by inlays and other dental means to make a youthful...
Installmentwise: Battleship building takes over four years, cruisers and smaller craft proportionately less. Therefore, the $667,499,000 budgeted for naval building this year cannot be completely put in circulation for three to four years. Bethlehem Steel's order book now contains $71,000,000 of naval business (total unfilled orders: $192,000,000, largest in peacetime history) but, staggered over three or four years, this comes out as only $18-23,000,000 a year, not nearly enough to support the company's overall production much above the rate for the steel industry as a whole...