Word: naval
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Aged Air Force. If Red China were to follow its words with action, the weapon it would employ would be its infantrymen-some 2,500,000. The Chinese, of course, have nothing to match the U.S. preponderance in naval and air power. China's biggest warship is an aged cruiser, now anchored in Shanghai Harbor as a training ship. In numbers of planes-2,900-Red China boasts the world's third largest air force, but it would not last long in combat, since the planes are largely Russian castoffs, and the air arm is handicapped by shortages...
...warned that "the large quantities of oil in small acreages belonging in part to a Naval oil reserve would seem certain to stimulate recollections of Teapot Dome and Elk Hills...
...allow students to satisfy the requirement by any courses in the Catalogue (excepting elementary language courses and Air, Naval, and Military Science), duly divided into areas (the Constable proposal), perhaps with the proviso, suggested by Professor Birkhoff, that students were expected, but not required, to meet the requirement with courses labelled General Education...
...least two designated or three nondesignated half-courses in each outside area must be completed by the end of the sophomore year. The other two courses outside the area of concentration may be either General Education or departmental courses (excepting elementary language courses and Air, Military, and Naval Science) and may be taken at any time. A petition for an individual program to fulfill the General Education requirement may be presented to the Committee by a student after completion of his first year in college and in consultation with his adviser...
...planes that took off from the Dallas Naval Air Station last week looked like a pair of elephants doing a mid-air pas de deux. Their wings were tilted vertically, while their four turbo prop engines blasted so much prop wash straight downward that they kept pieces of trash flying in all directions around the field. Back and forth they rocked, 50 ft. above the ground, when suddenly they stopped and hovered in the 10-m.p.h. wind. Ungainly as they looked, the pair of XC-142As were the first large U.S. military transports to demonstrate a helicopter-like capability...