Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom so many owe so much, will become an air force without combat airplanes of about 150,000 men. The Royal Navy, which for centuries enforced the Pax Britannica and patrolled an empire from Gibraltar to Rangoon, will be reduced to 75,000 men. "The role of naval forces in total war is somewhat uncertain," said the White Paper candidly...
Central Reserve. To meet its commitments for the defense of its colonies and "to undertake limited operations in overseas emergencies," Britain will draw in its overseas garrisons to create a mobile, airborne Central Reserve based in Britain and supplemented by a "small number" of naval groups, each comprising one carrier and supporting ships. Bases will be maintained in Aden, Kenya, Singapore and Hong Kong. Medium bombers armed with atomic weapons will be based on Cyprus to meet Britain's obligations to support the Baghdad Pact countries. But British forces in Korea and Jordan will be withdrawn, and those...
...balls, 20 in. in diameter, seem to be made of polished aluminum. A closer look shows that they have an elusive iridescence, like the rainbow colors of soap bubbles. This is the only visible hint that there is something tricky about their shiny surfaces. The three balls in the Naval Research Laboratory at Washington are satellites for Project Vanguard to place on orbits circling the earth...
Britain's most sweeping peacetime reorganization calls for drastic overhauls in weapon research, air force techniques, and naval operations. With the hydrogen bomb in prospect, Britain intends to carry forth nuclear research, particularly in atomic missiles where she hopes to develop a "second generation" of rockets while receiving the presently less-advanced U.S. weapons already in production. They hope that this ground-to-air missile system will eventually replace R.A.F. manned fighters. On the seas, carrier task forces supported by light cruisers will comprise the fleet as the heavy cruisers are retired to the scrap pile...
...season Monday, tying Stevens Institute at Hoboken, 7 to 7; then was defeated in quick succesion by four of the top ten teams in the country. Rutgers University beat the Crimson, 18 to 9; Maryland University, 16 to 1; the University of Baltimore, 17 to 7; and the U.S. Naval Academy...