Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white powder with one and a half times the blasting force of TNT. It was invented by the Germans in 1899, but had been considered too expensive for military use until the U.S. found a way, used it in naval torpedoes and bazooka anti-tank rockets...
Forty-six members of the graduating seniors will receive commissions in the Navy, Naval Reserve, or Marine Corps Reserve at a commissioning ceremony in Lamont Forum Room at 10 a.m. today...
Rear Admiral Wat Tyler Cluverius, U.S.N. (ret), will speak and will deliver commissions to the new officers. Captain Carroll T. Bonney, U.S.N. retiring professor of Naval Science, and Captain D.V. Gladding, his replacement, will also speak...
...whirled through his two-day visit to Missouri at a collar-wilting pace. His first morning in St. Louis he was awake at 5:15, shaved and dressed at 5:30, and out striding along downtown sidewalks at 5:45. At one point during his jaunt he spotted a naval enlisted man named William Hall, standing on the sidewalk in a heated post-dawn argument with a taxi driver. The President tapped the bluejacket on the shoulder and asked: "Where did you get all those battle stars, sailor?" Hall whirled, goggled, hauled himself to attention and stammered an answer...
Down the streets of Boston, a rifle on his shoulder, marched a brand-new private of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts: Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 59, former Chief of Naval Operations...