Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive display of fireworks, military and naval aircraft, air manuvers, two bands, dancers and stunt events may be witnessed by the public on Thursday at 4:30 o'clock. The spectacle, which is to take place in the Charles River Basin, is sponsored by the Boston Herald in celebration of its 100th year of journalism...
...British, for the moment, were more interested in facts than in symbols; and one cogent fact was that Jewish immigration was running at 10,000 a month as against a quota of 1,500. Determined to stop this, the British sent powerful naval and air forces to stop and search any ships, under any flag, suspected of carrying illegal immigrants.* London announced that intercepted Jewish refugees would be held on Cyprus, where a mile-square camp, doubly enclosed by barbed wire, has been set up near Famagusta...
...August, 1945 Bonney was appointed Deputy Commander of Service Squadron 10, the Naval logistics unit for all territory west of Hawaii, which later became known as Admiral Nimitz's "secret weapon." He held this post until his transfer to the University NROTC program was announced...
Captain Carroll T. Bonney, U. S. Navy, became the commanding officer of the University Naval ROTC program yesterday when he assumed the post left vacant by the retiring Captain C. H. J. Keppler...
...anticipation of the signing of a bill now on the President's desk, Bonney announced that the training unit would operate under two separate plans next fall: the pre-war policy, ending in a commission in the Naval Reserve; and, under the new bill, a system whereby the trainee would sign a contract with the Navy, agreeing to serve for two years in the regular Navy after graduation and to remain in the Naval Reserve enough additional time to complete six years of duty...