Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well exposed as hoaxes or hallucinations. But most people were still sure that some kind of unidentified flying object did exist, and they wanted some sense-making explanation. Last week they got the best one yet. It came from Dr. Urner Liddel, chief nuclear physicist for the Office of Naval Research...
...that the public had never really been kept in the dark about Skyhooks. Reporting in April 1949, after a two-year investigation of flying-saucer stories, the Air Force had suggested clusters of Skyhooks as one source of the saucer rumors. But for some reason, known only to Naval bureaucracy, no one had ever before given a full explanation of how they looked at high altitudes, or furnished photographic evidence...
...apparatus. Last week there were some guarded indications that the true sub was out of the dream stage at last. Said Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike: "In an attempt to get useful power from atomic fission, we are engaged in the design and construction of a power plant for naval submarines. The design of two practical, though expensive, devices for submarine propulsion is practically complete, and one of them is partly built. It shouldn't be too many years before one or both will be operating in a true submarine...
...first went to Naval Lieut. Charles Lucas in 1856 for pitching overboard a live shell during the Crimean War. Cast from the bronze of captured cannon, the V.C. entitles enlisted recipients who survive to a lifetime stipend of ?10 annually, a salute from officers...
...week the Navy announced that it has nearly completed a radio telescope to watch stars in another way. The reflector, an aluminum "dish" 50 feet in diameter and weighing 14 tons, is supported by a mounting made for a 5-in. gun. It will watch the sky from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington...