Word: naval
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Points 2 and 3 were concessions to the hopeful British view that the Chinese had invaded Korea primarily to safeguard the North Korean dams which generate hydroelectric power used by Manchurian industry and furnish light to the Manchurian industrial center of Mukden, the Russian naval base at Port Arthur and Dairen. The British view was strengthened by the fact that Chinese troops had struck hardest in the area south of the Yalu River's 480-ft. Suiho Dam, which has a capacity of 700,000 kw., two-thirds as much as massive Hoover Dam. But supporters of the British...
Tentative plans call for weekly meetings of the group until the sailors return home next spring. They are also currently receiving instruction in naval science at the Boston Navy Yard...
...Pscho-Acoustical Laboratory operates on a budget from the University and grants from the Office of Naval Research. Hirsh is presently working on the cause and cures of temporary deafness, resulting from loud noises or shocks, and its relation to permanent deafness...
...aviation award, to the outstanding aviator, aviatrix and aeronaut of the past decade: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, wartime boss of the Eighth Air Force, leader of the first Tokyo raid; Jacqueline Cochran, wartime head of WASP, and dirigible expert Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl (retired), wartime chief of Naval Airship Training...
Morison, who currently holds a captaincy in the Navy to write a history of that service's part in World War II, asserted that co-ordination between land, naval, and air forces were deficient during the early stages of the Korean war. The Korean campaign, Morison noted, "has disproved claims of the Air Force . . . our Air Force was completely unequipped for tactical bombing in support of our own troops...