Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They found one room fitted out with photocopy equipment, a desk in another room spread with copies of Government documents. Behind a door were a bellows-type suitcase and two briefcases packed with other papers-altogether close to 300 originals and copies of documents stolen from the Offices of Naval Intelligence and Censorship, G2, OSS, State Department and British Intelligence. A few of them were marked "Top Secret" and "Secret"; all of them were labeled for official scrutiny only...
...Larsen, 47, State Department expert on Far East affairs who had spent most of his adult life in Asia; Navy Reserve Lieut. Andrew Roth, 26, before the war Jaffe's assistant, who, despite a report pointing at him as a fellow traveler, was working in the Office of Naval Intelligence...
That was a month ago. The Queen had come to christen the new aircraft carrier Ark Royal, and all Bebington was astir to greet her. Streets were hung with naval pennants, shopfronts blossomed in bunting. As bobbies took up stations along the main street to the shipyards, Bebingtonians by the thousands pressed close to cheer the royal Daimler as it sped past. Dustman Cooper was spending the day as usual, driving his garbage truck through the streets, and taking what satisfaction he could from the fact that his truck was a spanking brand-new one, red and shiny...
...regulations of the U.S. Navy and of the U.S. Naval Academy reflect decades of service wisdom in facing up to all sorts of military situations. But the regulations have nothing explicit to say about what to do when a starling comes to roost on a second classman's shoulder in the middle of June Week ceremonies at Annapolis (see cut). That left the matter up to Drummer Peter F. H. Hughes of Chicago to work out for himself...
...development costs of a device as visionary as the airplane?" Hafstad pointed out that the submarine has proved wholly useless for all but war like purposes. But the lightweight diesel engine now dominating U.S. railroads was developed for use in submarines. The present furious research on reactors for propelling naval vessels or even the work on the wholly "useless" atomic bomb may yield similar peaceful dividends...