Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American takes no action, the Philippine Islands will soon be ripe for a successful Communist-becked popular uprising. The United States will then be forced to put down the revolt with American troops and to establish martial law, or to give up the twenty-three military, naval, and air bases she holds in the Islands...
...Sidewalks of New York and the Red army's march Meadowlands, and, at the President's request, Edvard Grieg's I Love You. But Harry Truman extricated himself as soon as possible. He headed straight for the nearest military hospital -in this case St. Albans Naval Hospital-to visit men wounded in Korea...
...challenging his Democratic rival Governor Paul A. Dever, to a 100-yd. race. "And furthermore," said Coolidge (a fourth cousin of Calvin Coolidge), "I'll give him a handicap of a foot for each year of difference in our ages." Dever, a World War II naval officer who is 47 but notably on the portly side, did not choose to race...
...Kill. Though the Korean war had been fought & won primarily by U.S. and South Korean forces, the soldiers & sailors of other U.N. nations had been in at the kill. The naval forces which had blockaded and bombarded Korea's coasts had drawn heavily on the fleets of the British Commonwealth. Britain herself had contributed four carriers, four cruisers, six destroyers and supporting ships. Canada had sent three destroyers, Australia two more and New Zealand had provided two frigates. Non-Commonwealth ships which joined the U.S. Navy included a Dutch destroyer and a French sloop...
Road Fed & Ice Free. The heartland is a 500-mile-long loop of sea, plain and jagged mountain, notable because-in Alaska's trackless central land mass-it is stitched together by year-round transportation. It begins in the southwest at the island naval base of Kodiak, encompasses the ice-free ports of Seward and Whittier, fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment of the 2,350-mile overland route from...