Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sent to the Naval Affairs Committee the Army-favored Thomas bill for merger of the armed services...
...Ferguson of the Royal Naval College, Eaton, Chester, started poking around in the old numbers. He made a shocking discovery, promptly wrote a letter to Nature, the London Times of British science. On the 528th decimal, Ferguson had found a one-digit discrepancy. The rest was chaos...
Last week 39-year-old Captain Clifford, who had stuck to his desk and never gone to sea, took over as President Truman's Naval Aide...
...Navy was far from appeased. Boiling mad, Navymen lost no time in making their feelings known. In Dallas, Rear Admiral A. S. Merrill, commandant of the Eighth Naval District, came up swinging with a below-the-belt punch. Cried he: "It is my belief that when the next war comes we will need the finest Army and Air Forces in the world, because with a greatly weakened Navy, submerged under Army control, the fighting will be on our own shores...
...have University men who were navy pilots come down here and fly them." The pilots may fly up to six hours per month between now and July, when the air groups will be organized. At that time, the men will have the opportunity to join one of two Naval Air Reserve Training Programs-the ready reserve, involving eight hours of flying per month; or the standby reserve, requiring four hours per month. Only former navy pilots are eligible...