Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ship's name will not be changed. By naval custom, only battleships-a vanishing class-are named after states...
Dean Bender was moderator of the discussion which included Lieutenant George Henderson, from the Boston office of Naval Officer Procurement; Captain William Lott, Air Force Public Information Officer for the New England Recruiting Area; and Major W. Bruce Pirnie '51, who represented the reserves...
...Alan T. Waterman was appointed last week as first director of the National Science Foundation, whose principal job is to stimulate theoretical research. U.S. scientists were sure to cheer the choice. As chief civilian scientist in the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Waterman was largely responsible for the extraordinary respect which non-Government scientists feel toward ONR. Its ultimate objective was to develop weapons, but it did not limit itself to gadgeteering. Realizing that really new weapons can grow only from new theory, it encouraged all sorts of basic research, much of it far removed from direct weapons work...
...Palmetto, between Washington and Charleston, where five years ago Ensign Rowan, U.S.N.R. had to eat at a curtain-rigged table, Newsman Rowan ate in an open diner-thanks to the Supreme Court decision outlawing Jim Crow in dining cars on interstate trains. In New Orleans, by showing his Naval Reserve card, he even got a Pullman berth...
Kaman Aircraft was launched in a West Hartford, Conn, basement, where Charles H. Kaman, 31, worked out a design for a helicopter that won a naval competition in 1949. It was a liaison copter that could be converted to a flying ambulance. Last week Kaman had more than $2,000,000 in military orders for his four-placeHOK-i and the smaller HTH-i, both of which have twin rotors with inter-meshing blades...