Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million, slashed the payroll from 17,000 to 10,000, cut the property tax almost 50%, created the job of state "business manager." He resigned in 1943 to enter the Navy as a lieutenant commander, became flag secretary to Admiral William Halsey (who called him "a great naval officer"), and rose to captain. Franklin Roosevelt called him from the Pacific in 1945 to serve as a U.S. delegate to the San Francisco Conference that wrote the United Nations charter...
...naval aviators examined in 1940, a follow-up twelve years later showed that 192 died in combat or air accidents; only seven died of disease (far less than the normal rate). But out of 680 recently examined, 157 were dangerously overweight and 87 had diseases of the heart or arteries...
Still full of faith in its carriers, the Navy announced that the U.S.S. Antietam was in Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard for a million-dollar face-lifting.When the workmen have finished, the rear deck of the Antietam will angle to port so that landing aircraft will no longer head directly toward planes parked at the bow (see diagram...
...little known, and for that, King himself is mostly to blame. Now 74, weakened by a stroke five years ago, he is anxious to find his niche in history, and so has collaborated with Walter M. Whitehill, librarian of Boston's Athenaeum, in what is accurately called "a naval record...
Whether by design or not, King reveals himself in his choice of heroes. Heading his list of the world's great naval commanders is John Jervis, Lord St. Vincent, whom Mahan, in heartfelt admiration, could only call "a man of adamant." In these pages, King is exposed as a man of obsidian, consciously modeling himself on Jervis. He was flattered when friends said he was so tough that he must shave with a blowtorch, and gave him a four-foot crowbar to use as a toothpick...