Word: naval
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EMMETT SHIELDS Assistant Field Director American Red Cross U.S. Naval Station Long Beach, Calif...
Died. Joseph Wright Powell, 76, naval architect and shipbuilder; in Thomasville, Ga. During the Spanish-American War, Annapolisman Powell commanded the little launch which, under heavy fire, vainly searched for survivors of the-collier Merrimac, scuttled in the entrance to Santiago Harbor by Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson in an effort to bottle up Admiral Cervera's fleet...
...stand with Rickover were Admiral Robert Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, and a swarm of the Navy's highest brass, industrialists. Senators, atomic scientists-and Sponsor Mamie Eisenhower, carrying a big bunch of roses and smiling pertly at everyone. The Coast Guard band played a specially written march, The Nautilus, and then there were the speeches. "A launching," said Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, "is always a prophetic and romantic occasion, but this literally transcends all which have gone before. For the Nautilus is ... something new under...
...Damn Fools. Montagu, then a naval intelligence officer, had what seemed to him a brilliant idea. Why not drop a body dressed as a British officer off the coast of Spain where it would wash ashore? Let the officer carry papers indicating that an attack on Sicily would not be the real thing, that the real blows would fall on Sardinia and Greece. How would the Germans hear about it? Well, trust the Spaniards to tip them...
...Pacific, U.S. Air Force pilots do most of their flying from bases that Manhattan's Raymond Concrete Pile Co. had a hand in building. The company headed a combine that constructed $1.4 billion worth of U.S. naval and air bases at Guam, Wake, Midway and other Pacific islands in 1939-43. Thus, it was no surprise in the construction industry last week when the contract to build U.S. bases in Spain went to a combine that included Raymond. Other members of the winning team, picked from a 230-company list of bidders, were Manhattan's Walsh Construction...