Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tradition of ancient admirals) would like to lop off the top 10% of the service's greening brass, lower the retirement age, put in a young admiral as boss. Their favorite, No. 175 on the list of admirals: lean, able Arthur W. Radford, 49, who set up naval aviation's excellent wartime training program, later bossed a Pacific carrier group...
Ruby Newman's orchestra will play at the Naval ROTC company dance tomorrow evening at Eliot House. The dance will be preceded by a review...
...these, only Okinawa, Truk and Manus are suitable for important naval usage. The Jap base at Truk, perhaps the Pacific's best landlocked anchorage, would presumably be acquired by what Truman called "arrangements consistent with the United Nations Charter." Postwar rights to Manus, an Australian mandate in the Admiralties which the Seabees built into a major fleet repair station, would be subject to negotiation, would undoubtedly entail reciprocal rights to one or more U.S. bases...
...Power. A fortnight ago, the U.S. position was: its naval and air strength could take and hold control of any body of open water in the world. Air forces could conduct crippling assaults into enemy territory, though such assaults by themselves might not win wars. The potential limitation on U.S. power (apparent in Italy and at the Siegfried Line) came in cases where the U.S. had to send ground forces deep into a large land mass in order to bring about a surrender...
...Varian, who invented the important klystron tube; and a great anonymous army of scientists at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric, many another industrial laboratory. The U.S. also owes much to Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen, who, as chief of the Naval Research Laboratory, sparked its radar pioneering...