Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, outspokenly dissents. In a recent speech, he said that the Soviet Union is "determined to ... challenge our position on the seas...
...make sober Christmas presents, but they are two books of 1953 that thoughtful Americans can still profit from. Not so distressing, and highly informative as well as entertaining, was Admiral Leslie Stevens' Russian Assignment, a critically urbane look at the Russian scene during his 1947-49 mission as naval attache...
...active eye on the company. Sweatt started off in the family-owned business, when the firm had 50 employees and one product, built it up to 24,000 employees and annual sales of $200 million. Moving into Sweatt's old job is Paul B. Wishart, 55, U.S. Naval Academy graduate who directed the company's postwar expansion into more than 9,000 kinds of automatic controls for everything from gas heaters to guided missiles...
Died. Rear Admiral William Sterling Parsons, 52, deputy Navy ordnance chief and pioneer A-bomb weaponeer; of a heart attack, ten minutes after entering the National Naval Medical Center for a checkup; in Bethesda, Md. During World War II, he helped set up the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex. (1945), three weeks later rode over Japan in the bomb bay of the B-29 Enola Gay to trigger the second Abomb, minutes before it was dropped on Hiroshima...
Russian Assignment, by Leslie C. Stevens. An enlightening account of two years in Russia, by a U.S. naval attache who found the Russian people friendly (TIME...