Word: quarterdeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cruiser for Modern War was what Author Peter Marsh Stanford called his unorthodox proposal. Besides four 14-in. guns it would carry, as anti-aircraft protection, twenty-four 5-in. and eighteen 40-mm. guns, four multiple pom-poms plus machine guns, six planes with two catapults on the quarterdeck and sixteen 21-in. torpedo tubes. Such a mighty cruiser, said Stanford, would be necessarily shorter, fatter and slower than the Brooklyn, but anyway "no ship can ever be designed fast enough to run away from enemy aircraft...
Trained to the quarterdeck, he likes only to get jobs done; to heck with people who pause to ponder, fret or quibble. But -as one of his fellow commissioners pointed out last week-proper organization and supervision of work also has its part to play in cutting loafing and that is a management problem...
From Reuter's Correspondent Norman Thorpe came an eyewitness account of her destruction. Thorpe was aboard. "Violent explosions" sent him rushing to the quarterdeck. As the Eagle heeled over, "six-inch shells, each weighing 100 lb., tore loose from their brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung themselves overboard to escape the runaway shells. Thorpe himself slid down a rope into the thick, oil-coated sea, let go, realized with horror that he had not blown enough air into his lifebelt. He thrashed his way to a cork float...
...neither Citizen Willkie nor Army nor Navy were likely to cavil. They had gained an important point and a good man. Admiral Leahy, lean and still as sharp of mind and tongue as when he walked the quarterdeck, is a thorough going professional at warfare. As a naval officer he had spent 22 of his 46 years of service at sea, had commanded the battle force of the U.S. Fleet, worked in the top ranks of its high command and finally became Chief of Naval Operations. His new appointment had been foreshadowed (TIME, July...
...young British sailor aboard the raft saved my life. 'I'll help you,' he shouted. 'Get this rope under your arms.' He passed a thick, heavy rope under my arms, tied it and flung the end to the quarterdeck of the destroyer. Three sailors slowly pulled me out of the oily mass...