Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although yesterday's contest with Boston University ended the regularly scheduled summer season for the Crimson nine, Coach Samborski announced that the Varsity will play, another contest with the Squantum Naval Air Base nine at Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon. Harvard has beaten the sallors twice this summer...
...Pola, a former Italian naval base, about 40,000 Italians were preparing to evacuate. Houses worth $20,000 were being offered for $200 or less. Shopkeepers were trying frantically to turn their stocks into cash. The Italians had openly threatened to burn the town down before leaving, and a very worried British major representing A.M.G. predicted...
...Army and Naval Intelligence services, and the NKVD secret police each had its system. The fourth was a political ring under Peter G. Goussarov, who rated as a second secretary in the Embassy; the evidence showed that he had "authority . . . on the level of an ambassador." The fifth and most active unit was the Military Intelligence network bossed by Colonel Nicolai Zabotin (TIME, March 11). Canada's Communist (Labor Progressive) party furnished the rings with recruits. Their pay was small, usually only $30 to $100 for a piece of information...
Maude Byrnes and Catherine Nimitz, wives of the Secretary of State and Chief of Naval Operations, showed up at a community canning center in Washington, helped put up peaches. It was "National Home Food Preservation Week...
...Still, a naval atomic engine would have great advantages. A pound of pure natural uranium (U-238) in a pile produces 20-400 kilowatt-hours of usable energy. An atomic-powered ship could cruise almost indefinitely without refueling, could dispense with oil storage tanks and its great weight of fuel. Engineers guesstimate that uranium as fuel would be no more costly than oil or coal...