Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unanswered Questions. But other naval officers in the Pentagon were not so sure. What about the oil and the continuing echoes from the hull? Quietly, a small group of World War II sub captains got out old charts and started poking into the files. Their search led them to the record of another U.S. vessel that had fought a battle in Formosa Strait...
...work in harmony with Castlereagh, then Secretary for War. Castlereagh challenged him to a duel in which Canning was shot in the thigh; both then resigned. He did not return to office until Castlereagh's suicide, 13 years later. Canning encouraged liberal movements in Europe, used British naval power to keep France and Spain out of Latin America. He proposed a pact with the U.S.; President James Monroe instead unilaterally proclaimed a Monroe Doctrine. Later Canning made a famous boast: "I called the New World into existence to redress the balance...
...When the naval officer blew on his ice cream to cool it, the medics raised their eyebrows but did not laugh. Nor did they think he was wacky; he was just getting over a kind of fish poisoning which the medical profession calls ichthyotoxism. It is the only disorder doctors know of in which temperature reactions are reversed, e.g., a victim complains that his hot soup is cold, or that his ice water is scalding his tongue...
...film also contains much stock Abbott and Costello type humor. At one point, Lewis, in attempting to escape a naval blood test wanders into a blood bank, where he is interviewed by a beautiful nurse...
...office has sent some men out to build oil refineries in India for Standard Vacuum: some to work on secret government prospects at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory; others to executive jobs in department stores like Macy's, and still others to designing helicopters for Bell Aircraft...