Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broken Habit. The speech over, the President was off for a brief rest prescribed by his doctor. He went straight to the airport, boarded the Sacred Cow for a flight to the Key West naval base.* His first day there, the President began wiping out the faint traces of strain from his Mexican trip and the feverish conferences on Greece by breaking a habit: he got up at 8 a.m. instead of his usual...
...enemy tried to repeat the Japanese coup of five years ago. From the decks of three aircraft carriers, 230 planes were flown against Oahu.* The defense was alerted and did its best in mock dogfights, but the attackers won by "destroying" the vital airfields which ring the great naval base, leaving it virtually defenseless...
Parity extends to 1974. To nail down freedom from fear, the Philippines three days later signed an agreement giving the U.S. military and naval bases until 2046 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Richmond served during the war in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, was present at the evacuation of Dunkirk, and saw action in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and in the Mediterranean...
...graduated from Amherst College in 1935. He did graduate work at Chicago, where he received a Ph.D. in 1939. During the war, he did radio research for the Federal Communications Commission, worked for a time in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and served in the United States Naval Reserve. He was Deputy Chief of the Morale Division, U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific...