Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nominated Samuel Wilder King, 66, to be governor of Hawaii. Republican King, who has Hawaiian blood, was delegate to Congress from the island territory (1935-42), graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a naval officer in both World Wars...
When Dwight Eisenhower asked Robert Chapman Sprague to serve as Under Secretary of the Air Force, the choice seemed a good one. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (1920) and a Navy construction expert before he entered private business in 1926, Sprague had served on many a Government- industry committee, knew his way around a bureau. He bustled down to Washington a week before inauguration, spent more time learning his job than any other Defense Department nominee...
...used to have wooden ships and iron men. Now we've got iron ships and wooden men," said the training officer to a bunch of German naval cadets just after World War II began. Cadet Heinz Schaeffer, 18, soon found that officers and NCOs had ways of putting iron into the German navy's new blood. Each man was handed an electrically charged bar. Movies recorded who screamed and who bit his cheeks in the approved stoic fashion. It was deep winter, but at 6 a.m. reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training...
When practical people asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, the Englishman answered; "Because it is there." French Naval Captain Jacques Y. Cousteau is a man similarly obsessed; his obsession, however, is with the depths...
...Navy's new delta-wing F2Y Sea-Dart. A supersonic jet fighter with skis for landing on water, it skitters ashore looking like an ungainly swordfish (see cut). Convair expects the new design to combine land-based performance with water-based versatility, create a "revolution" in naval operations. Current backlog: more than $1 billion...