Word: naval
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the outbreak of war. Cushing was commissioned in the Navy ("I figured I'd get drafted anyway"). Assigned as a troubleshooter for Naval Air Transport Service, he traveled to all war theaters, worked as he never had before...
...occasion he flew to Brazil, found a Naval transport station sorely in need of dockage equipment. Ironically, the very equipment needed was stored only four miles away but assigned to the Rubber Development Corporation. Federal law forbade transfer to the Navy, so Cushing decided the law needed changing. He flew back to Washington, went to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, got his backing, helped prepare the legislation, all in one stretch of 60 hours without sleep. The bill passed, but the strain proved too much. He collapsed, wound up in Bethesda Naval Hospital...
Short (5 ft. 5 in.), spectacled Scientist Northrup is an avid detective-story reader but hardly a storybook detective himself. A onetime Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher, he joined the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1940, was in Honolulu Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese began dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. Dodging flak showers, Civilian Northrup dashed to the burning Navy Yard, helped put out submarine-detection devices from a patrol boat in pitching seas. In 1948, when Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss persuaded the Administration to establish an atomic-detection unit, selfless Scientist Northrup was borrowed by the Air Force...
...alter the course of a rocket deep in space, to land it softly on the moon or swing it around Mars. Fuel systems now in use do not operate efficiently at low throttle, and once the fuel is turned off they cannot be re-ignited easily. Last week the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Calif, unveiled a fuel system that could solve this problem. It uses hypergolic fuel, i.e., two fluids that ignite as soon as they come in contact. A feed mechanism (using a $3.50 auto brake cylinder) squirts controlled amounts of fuel into the combustion chamber...
...History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume XII, Leyte, June 1944-January...