Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact statment also considered 36 alternative sites for the library, including the Watertown arsenal and the Charlestown Naval Yard...
...ranks as senior officers were liquidated in the 1937- 38 purges, and became Navy Commissar in 1939 at the age of 37. Kuznetsov embarked on a massive cruiser and battleship building program and restored czarist-style discipline on shipboard, requiring officers to wear bone-handled swords. He mapped the naval strategy used against Finland in 1940, and later led his fleet against the Nazis. Demoted by a suspicious Stalin, he was reinstated in 1951 and finally fell from power in 1956, when Khrushchev decided that Kuznetsov's emphasis on a surface navy was out of date...
...onstage with a stripper sent shock waves through Congress, most especially members of Mills' own party. In sorrow, House Speaker Carl Albert announced that Mills would not be Ways and Means chairman when the 94th Congress convened in January. A confused and ailing Mills checked himself into the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., for a checkup and a badly needed rest...
...turned to Rostenkowski and asked once more: "How do you think I stand?" Rostenkowski was frank: "Mr. Chairman, you're out of business. It's all over for you. The members on this committee are terribly disappointed." At that, Mills picked up the telephone and called the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda to ask for admittance...
Moreover, many contractors are now turning down military contracts in favor of sales to private companies; they find that commercial orders yield less paper work and better profits. Says Admiral Isaac Kidd, Chief of the Naval Matériel Command: "It is no longer a buyers' market where we could dictate through contracts...