Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approval from Congress for a $350 million naval construction program to include an experimental atomic-powered submarine...
...Lake Success, Admiral Chester Nimitz, mediator of the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, also took on the job of U.N. public-relations consultant, i.e., official spreader of good will. In Omaha, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews was named president of radio station WOW, Inc. In Boston, onetime Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Louis Denfeld filed his papers for the Republican nomination for governor of Massachusetts...
Said the doctor: "You have cancer. You have .. . maybe only a short while to live." The 27-year-old patient at the Naval Hospital in Boston who heard these words four years ago was Lieut. Commander Edwin M. Rosenberg, Annapolis-trained veteran of war in both the Atlantic and Pacific...
Each year on the anniversary of his retirement, Rosenberg has written to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, reporting himself fit and ready for active duty. He was assigned to a tour as an instructor in seamanship at the Naval Academy. He was fit enough to navigate a sloop in the grueling Newport-Bermuda race. But by a legal quirk, the Navy was powerless to put Rosenberg back on the active list without a special Act of Congress. Rosenberg started lobbying to get the bill through. Last week the Senate passed it, sent it to the House...
...Office of Naval Research asked Reeves Instrument to set up a combination of its analogue computers* which would be versatile enough to simulate the flight of any guided missile. "Project Cyclone" operated in secret until last week when the Navy declassified some of its activities...