Word: naval
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Marine Marvel. Even to jaded voyagers, the Queen Mary was still a marvel of naval architecture. From her straight, businesslike stem to her bulging cruiser stern the Queen represents a blending of many ancient and modern arts. Her builders had to wrestle with the problem of constructing a hull of titan strength to withstand almost unimaginable strains as the seas pass under her 1,020 feet, lifting her first by the bow, then amidships, then astern. The propulsion engineers used the power of 50 locomotives to drive the four screws, each 20 feet across and weighing 35 tons, which...
First outside game Samborski said will be with the Middlesex Club of Water-town Wednesday at 3:30 o'clock at Soldiers Field. A yet unnamed team from the First Naval District will furnish the opposition for the second extra-mural contest on the following Wednesday...
...Manhattan, 128 white-uniformed Venezuelan naval cadets marched from the transport Cabana to the statue of Bolívar in Central Park. They heard Dr. Pedro de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to Chile and former assistant director of the Pan American Union, declare that Bolívar's spirit now lives in the 55-nation Assembly of the United Nations. It was July 24, the 164th birthday of the man for whom a country and a dozen towns* have been named...
Wrote William Barkley, London Daily Express columnist, last week: "The favorite roosting perch of the visiting sailors ... is Piccadilly's statue of Eros (TIME, July 7), reset up just in time for this naval occasion. Happy, contented, their jaws working overtime, there they sit, apparently hypnotized by London's traffic swirling about them. Quick census ... at 3:30 yesterday: 37 sailors. There were a few girls too-about...
Under her own power, the wounded Micmac managed to limp into port. Naval experts were undecided whether she would ever sail again. The Navy last week held a court of inquiry into the worst peacetime disaster in R.C.N. history: six men killed, five "missing," 16 hospitalized...