Word: navymen
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...slowly than typical cholera. Mass inoculations might have helped, but government and antigovernment forces, burning with election fever, accused each other of cornering vaccine for their partisans. The government welcomed a U.S. Navy team of veteran cholera fighters from Formosa, but failed to use vigorously the weapon that the Navymen recommended: salt water. Cholera victims are weakened and killed by a catastrophic loss of body fluids through vomiting and diarrhea (as many as 15 quarts in a day); they can nearly always be saved by prompt, aggressive treatment, in which saline solution is given intravenously, sometimes with sodium bicarbonate...
Lost Sale. Two weeks ago. Harris seized a patrol boat that had been sailed to the U.S. by three defecting Castro navymen. By last week he had a buyer ready to pay $55,000 for the vessel-when the U.S. State Department suddenly announced that the boat was protected by diplomatic immunity and must be returned to Cuba. Although the State Department claimed that no "swap" was involved, it was hardly a coincidence that that same day Castro released an Eastern Air Lines Electra valued at $2,500,000, that had been hijacked and flown to Havana on July 24th...
Perhaps surprisingly, the Navy's brass liked what it heard, responded to Connally's speech with warm applause. If, as his speech suggested, Connally was going to be a salty and vigorous leader, the Navymen seemed happy to have him at the helm. And he might even make a dent in the featherbed...
...Navymen around the world await the annual edition of Jane's Fighting Ships as eagerly as European aristocrats used to await the Almanack de Gotha. Since 1897, Jane's, published in London close to the British Admiralty, has been the unofficial but authoritative best word on the relative strength and precedence of all the navies of the world...
...over control of the Navy's Polaris missile-submarine system. The Air Force, claiming the right to hit strategic targets, wanted to put assignment of Polaris targets under control of the Strategic Air Command. The Navy, claiming the need for seagoing expertise, wanted Polaris targeting left up to Navymen. In another day the fight would have boiled out into angry headlines. But Gates set up the interservice strategic target team, headed by SAC Commander General Thomas S. Power, to keep track of all U.S. strategic forces and make sure that every essential target is covered by one force...