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...Navy has had to sink the ships which survived Bikini. Last week the submarine Skate and the transport Crittenden were destroyed during landing maneuvers off Southern California. Next month the heavy cruiser Pensacola and the destroyer Hughes will be sent to the bottom. Two years and three months after Bikini, all four were still radioactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Creeping Death | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built. The tree that Rickey is growing in Brooklyn (see chart) has 25 branches. This year 450 of its finest fruits were processed in Rickey's new training school at Pensacola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Lip | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...share of the thousands of words a week filed by sports writers were about the Rufe Leonards rather than the Stan Musials. At Pensacola, Fla., the Dodgers had 242 rookies attending a baseball school at an abandoned Navy airbase. One good bet: Negro Jackie Robinson will start the season in Brooklyn as a first baseman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie Hunt | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...smokestacks, even of battleships, crumpled like paper. The blast passing down the cruiser Pensacola's stacks blew open the boilers' fire doors-which would have brought death by suffocation to all the fireroom crews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Fair Sample, Fair Warning | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...heavy cruiser Pensacola, the only ship which showed serious damage below the main deck. She, too, had a deep depression in an armored deck amidships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Fair Sample, Fair Warning | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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