Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House, getting ready for two weeks' vacation, also passed a military and naval construction bill of $5.7 billion-adding to the $56 billion arms bill it had passed the week before. In the only impressive display of moneysaving, the House reduced the Administration's $8.5 billion foreign aid bill by $1 billion, sent it on to the Senate. This was the biggest cut in funds the House has made yet-and the most shortsighted in the Administration's view...
...brisk punch. Moving out under a battering artillery bombardment, U.N. troops assaulted Communist positions in the rain-lashed mountains north of the Hwachon Reservoir and east of the "Iron Triangle." The Reds fell back in some places, fought hand-to-hand in others despite U.N. air, artillery, tank and naval gunfire. U.N. officers described it as a limited offensive "to straighten our lines and to prevent the enemy from observing the positions we currently hold." Another theory: that it was designed to impress Communists at Kaesong with what will come if peace talks fail...
...executive under W.R. for the past ten years. Massive, dressy Dick Berlin, 57, got his start as a shipping clerk after a high-school education in his native Omaha. Full of Irish charm and aggressiveness, he served as a World War I naval lieutenant, began his career in the Hearst organization, without knowing it, when he met Mrs. Hearst at a party given for World War I servicemen. Charmed with Lieut. Berlin, Mrs. Hearst got him a postwar job selling advertising for Hearst's Motor Boating magazine. He was such a star salesman that he rose to be general...
...Exception: Trabert, 20, who was dropped last week from the Naval Reserve (seaman) because his tennis duties kept him from attending drill, is now subject to the draft...
George Washington also turned up in the art news again-this time as a rather foxy-faced gentleman in a braided blue jacket. A picture portraying him in such fashion, long mistitled A Naval Officer, now hangs in Sulgrave Manor, ancestral Northamptonshire home of the Washington family...