Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from columnists, radio & TV commentators and editorial writers. As it does each year, the Associated Press wired its report of our selection to papers throughout the country. The Army adopted our cover painting for 50,000 recruiting posters. The original was requested for display in London. A newly enlisted naval aviation cadet wrote that the reasoning in the story had "affirmed and broadened" his own convictions. Praise for the story was almost universal, with a predictable exception: the West Coast Communist newspaper, the People's World, took two columns to condemn our "brutal killer...
...Some of them: In 1802 President Jefferson sent a naval expedition to war with the Barbary pirates; in 1900 President McKinley sent U.S. sailors, soldiers and marines into China to help quell the Boxer Rebellion; in 1912 President Taft established an American "protectorate" over Nicaragua with the marines in charge...
...generations the cliff-guarded, North Sea island of Helgoland led a strained double life as a famous European bird sanctuary and as a key naval base for Imperial and later Nazi Germany. World War II scared away the birds; at war's end, the British also sent away Helgoland's human population of 1,400, turned Germany's backyard Gibraltar into a target range for Royal Air Force and U.S. Air Force bombers. Every five days or so, bombers out on target practice pounded the island's remains to smithereens...
College seniors may apply 60 days before graduation for Naval Reserve commissions in the General Line and Supply Corps, the Boston Recruiting Station has announced...
...Naval Air Cadet Program, for which single men, 18 to 26, with two years of college are eligible, has been discontinued until March or April. However, those who have not taken their pre-induction physicals may now make their applications and take the preliminary steps for NAVCAD...