Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Senate: CJ Ignoring the President's veto threat, tacked a rider to the minimum wage bill permitting a farmer to include farm labor costs in computing parity prices. CJ Received a Banking Committee recommendation that Harry Truman's old friend and naval aide, Commodore James K. ("Commodore Cluck") Vardaman, be confirmed for a 14-year term on the Federal Reserve Board...
Seattleites were pleased but slightly puzzled by Soviet Naval Lieutenant Nikolai G. Redin. The dark, handsome, 29-year-old lieutenant did his work as a Soviet Purchasing Commission liaison officer without a word about Marx, Engels, commissars or strikes. He was polite, played squash, drank bourbon and once enlivened a New Washington Hotel stag party by dropping to his heels and doing the "kazatski." After he had been in Seattle a while (he came in 1942), some people who had been a little uppish about Russians began to think better of them...
...told the military his reason: it was unwise to have so much of the nation's naval power in the Pacific at a time when it might be urgently needed elsewhere, say in the Mediterranean. Hastily, the Navy Department made its case: 1) only two major fleet units (battleships) were to be used, 2) neither was to be drawn from the Atlantic Fleet, 3) those ships could be left in the fleet if the commander in chief wanted it that...
...military and naval personnel are helping train China's new army, but China also needs more U.S. technical help to teach her own people the skills of a mechanized...
...more of the 125,000 atom-bomb casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were first reported came from the explosion's X-ray-like radiations. This fact, which medicine has long suspected, was confirmed last week by Captain Shields Warren, crack pathologist of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan...