Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Military Affairs Committee called in a whole array of experts: State Secretary Byrnes, War Secretary Patterson, Chief of Staff Eisenhower, Chief of Naval Operations Nimitz, the Air Forces' General Spaatz. Many a Congressman not on the committee tried to crash the closed hearing without success...
...Passed a bill to transfer small naval craft to China (to help it establish and train a Navy...
...though the Navy had been able in some part to avoid the Army manpower crisis, it had its own troubles. Its blueprint for a postwar Navy of 551,880 officers and men, with a 108,000-man Marine Corps, had been shelved by the Senate Naval Affairs Committee until after the atom-bomb tests. Its $6-billion budget for fiscal 1947 had been cut by $2 billion...
...Majesty's Major General Eric Mansergh had flown into Den Pasar from his Surabaya headquarters. The Netherlands' towheaded Colonel Fritz ter Meulen had arrived with his two-battalion Dutch occupation force. Japanese Army Colonel Kobungo Tsunuka and his naval sidekick, Captain Shizuo Okuyama, gravely waddled across Den Pasar's village square and presented their swords to the British commander. But only 300 Balinese solemnly watched the surrender. Exclaimed an officer who had known pageant-loving Bali before the war: "Godalmighty, there would have been 10,000 at a celebration like this...
...York universities and colleges. Said he: "Let's get them in this year even though you will have to sacrifice some of your standards." The educators agreed as "a last resort" to sponsor an emergency two-year college for 12,000 ex-G.I.s at Sampson Naval Base near Geneva. Six upstate colleges will help supply about 1,000 faculty members; the state will put up the cash ($3-to-$5 million). Proposed name: Dewey College...