Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week his country's credit came to Dr. Penney. Early one morning, as he watched over a special TV screen in the bowels of a naval vessel, he saw a bright flash, like a setting sun, light up the skies, followed by a dense, turbulent cloud that hugged the ground and slowly zigzagged upward in a Z shape curiously unlike the usual mushroom. Smaller than the usual U.S. blast, it was reportedly designed to verify a new technique aimed at reducing the amount of fissionable material needed to produce an explosion...
...shot down in the Yellow Sea, near the 38th parallel, by fighters from the U.S. carrier Valley Forge. A destroyer got Mishin's body from the wreckage before it sank. According to the U.S. report, the Red-starred Russian plane flew "toward the center of the U.N. [naval] formation in a hostile manner," eventually opening fire on the U.S. fighters. The U.S.S.R. claimed an "outrageous violation" of international law, insisted that the Soviet bomber was unarmed and flying a harmless practice mission out of Port Arthur...
Amolsch's life has always centered around government payrolls. The son of a naval man, he went through grade school and a year at Commerce High in New York City before he had to quit and take a job. The New Deal was beginning to flower then, and Amolsch signed up as a pest control officer for the Department of Agriculture. When he tired of that he joined a surveying team with the Department of the Interior. In 1938 he returned to New York and on the 21st of August enlisted in the Army for the first time...
...comrades full control of the strategic Changchun Railway in Manchuria by the end of 1952. But the Russians tacked a hard condition on to another 1950 promise: until a peace treaty is signed between the Communist states and Japan,* they will not turn over to the Chinese the powerful naval base of Port Arthur, on Manchuria's Liaotung Peninsula. Beyond these specifics, the communiques said only that other "important political and economic questions" had been discussed. At least ten of Chou's top 14 advisers remained behind in Moscow, presumably to work out the Sino-Russian program...
Died. Admiral Jonas Howard Ingram, 65, Medal of Honor winner (at Veracruz in 1914), wartime commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, onetime star athlete at Annapolis and later (1914-17) the Naval Academy's football coach; of a heart attack; in San Diego. In 1906, as the Navy's fullback, he caught a forward pass, scored Navy's first victory over Army in six years. During World War II he was responsible for the nation's sea lanes from the Arctic to the Falkland Islands, once said of his job: "I had little butter...