Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also competing will be five vessels from the United States Naval Academy yacht squadron and the 68-foot yawl "Tabor Boy," training ship for Tabor Academy in Marion...
...emotion dominated the mind of Master Sergeant Elmer C. Bender when he crawled out of his bunk on the morning of October 19, 1948, it was boredom. The sergeant, a debonair, dark-browed Marine Corps pilot, was at the U.S. Naval base at Tsingtao, China, and the Chinese, it was true, were having themselves some kind of a war only a few miles away. But it wasn't Sergeant Bender's war. He decided to get in a little flying time, asked a big, tousle-headed Navy chief electrician's mate named William C. Smith...
Last week the Foreign Ministers agreed on an overall Western defense concept along these lines: the U.S. would provide the bulk of strategic bombing aircraft and heavy naval forces; the British would concentrate on tactical light bombing and fighter forces; the French would supply the bulk of the West's land forces...
Last week, on the eve of Western Union's joint naval exercises, 30 Russian trawlers in four groups appeared in the English Channel. Moving slowly along Britain's southern coast, they anchored off Falmouth, 50 miles from Plymouth, where the naval maneuvers were to start. Local fishermen did a rushing business ferrying out sightseers at eight shillings a trip. The Russians refused all requests to board, some shouting "Is forbidden" and others "We go fishing...
...mother ship, where the flotilla master explained: "The Russian fishing industry urgently needs more trawlers in the Black Sea." He was waiting for other trawlers to catch up and refuel, then all would proceed on through the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The naval maneuvers were to be held in the Bay of Biscay...