Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power. In the last two years Russia has shown signs of wanting to become a major naval power. This ambition was fed by the annihilation of the Japanese navy and the Communist seizure of China, which opened a range of Pacific warm-water bases to the Red navy. But Russia's known navy is negligible except for its growing submarine fleet. It has about 300 submarines now, of which 30 to 40 are snorkel-equipped boats with enough speed and range to travel with a fleet...
...years Russia has had two or three battleships under construction. At least one of them, the Sovietsky Soyuz, may be in commission in the Baltic. Russia is not known to have any carriers, but the Red navy is developing a land-based naval air force...
...Stalinsk, in the coal-rich Kuzbas, the Russians have built a sizable new steel mill. Farther east there are only two known mills; one, with 200,000 tons' capacity, is at Komsomolsk (north of Vladivostok), supplying naval construction and ordnance for the Far East. Since Siberia lacks iron ore, this plant must get its iron from western Russia. The other is a tiny mill somewhere in the Transbaikal...
...Inverness Courier rallied to Nessie's defense. It denounced publication of the naval officer's account, added: "[A newspaper] must surely have a low opinion of its readers when it expects them to swallow such a story as this...
Last week a British naval officer, grown garrulous over a pint of bitter in a Portsmouth pub, fired a salvo into Nessie that seemed likely to sink her for good. In 1918, he explained, the navy for testing purposes had laid some 300 horned mines in Loch Ness in strings of eight. When they surfaced they rolled over once or twice, giving the impression of a living organism; then they sank. "At a distance," said he, "they make a fine monster...