Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from overland attack by massed armies. The ground troops alone-to say nothing of 125,000 Air Force officers and men-would require 12,500 tons of supplies daily. Movement of this tonnage from the U.S. and protection of this one base from sea attack would involve a major naval force...
Blind Devotion. In London, the Admiralty studied a request for a naval commission from a man who wrote: "My father was a seaman who fell overboard and drowned, and I would like to follow in his footsteps...
Even if 250 Russian divisions overran the western continent in ten days, U.S. air and naval superiority operating from this triangle would make Stalin's occupation of Western Europe a more uncertain and tenuous military asset than Hitler...
Cornell, the only crew to down the Crimson in 1947, is also a naval power to be reckoned with. Although they are not at their best over the Olympic distance they will race this year...
...Clifford also joined the Navy as a lieutenant (j.g.)-Sent to make a survey of the Pacific Coast supply situation, he won a citation for "diligence." Vardaman meanwhile had become Harry Truman's naval aide. And when Jake went off to Potsdam with Harry Truman in 1945, he summoned Clifford to man the White House station while he was gone. After Vardaman was made a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Clifford stayed on. He began helping Judge Sam Rosenman to write speeches, and when Rosenman left, the President gave Clifford a full-time...