Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customary pledge of allegiance to the flag. In Jacksonville an Air Corps veteran mailed his four Air Medals and six battle stars to the President for distribution among the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division. In Columbia, S.C., Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve so that he could not be called into service. In Albany, Ga., persons unknown set fire to two buildings on the campus of the Albany State College (for Negroes), caused an estimated $300,000 in damages...
...Smith's test fails to screen out patients who may have reactions that develop more slowly. But for them there was good news also. Two doctors at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Great Lakes, Ill. reported that injections of penicillinase (an enzyme that destroys penicillin in the body), given along with antihistamines, will clear up most cases of rashes, fever, swelling and painful joints caused by penicillin...
Weber said that the Office of Naval Research in Boston had been "co-operative" in attempting to secure some ruling on the material remaining in Littauer, but that the examination required was extremely time-consuming and no fast action could be expected...
Died. Soemu Toyoda, 72, fat, chauvinistic wartime Japanese admiral, chief of the Naval General Staff when Japan surrendered, onetime (1943) commandant of Japan's Yokosuka naval base; of a heart attack; in Tokyo...
...Waldo B. Jones, professor of Air Science and commanding officer of Air Force R.O.T.C. said last night that only 30 recruits have been accepted, as compared to over 60 last year. There will only be about 70 new members of the Naval R.O.T.C. compared to the approximate hundred who joined last year...