Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Seconds. At 7 p.m. His Majesty's Submarine Truculent was headed up the Thames estuary for the Chatham Naval Base, after a diving test cruise in the North Sea. Aboard was her regular complement of six officers, 55 men, plus 18 civilian Navy yard technicians who had been checking up on recent repairs to the Truculent...
Harvard's still-unrecognized chapter of the American Association for the Advancement of Colored People took no part in drafting the letter to President Conant decrying the Naval loyalty oath, the group said yesterday...
Republican Barrage. The open opposition to the Administration's decision came largely from Republicans. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, who had presided over a stern nonrecognition doctrine when Japan seized Manchuria in 1931, declared that the U.S. should certainly support the Chinese Nationalists and, if necessary, provide naval protection for Formosa. He was seconded on naval support by Ohio's Senator Taft, who last September had voted against the blanket Military Assistance Program for Europe and parts of Asia...
...rifleman in an infantry platoon, assaulting the Naha-Shuri line on Okinawa. The platoon was advancing into heavy machine-gun fire and sniper fire when one burst stitched down his left arm from elbow to wrist and severed the main nerve. One month later he was admitted to the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md. for a 13-month stay...
Wrong Foot. Near McAlester, Okla., Sid M. Puryear, employee at the naval ammunition depot, got a bad bruise when a crate containing 1,900 pairs of safety shoes fell on his foot...