Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stiff-upper-lip Philadelphia investment banker and World War II Navyman (four stripes in Air Intelligence). He went to Washington as Under Secretary to Navy Secretary Robert Anderson (now Secretary of the Treasury), inevitably inherited the top Navy job in 1957. He ran a taut and tidy ship, was always willing to listen and learn, but ready with a decision when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral: "If you dumped a messy problem...
...Opening the capsule itself was no problem but Monkey Sam had to stay in his inner package for four hours more, because Bone's officers did not dare tamper with its mysterious workings and high seas prevented transfer of the package to the task force's mother ship. Finally, guided by radioed instructions, the Borie's men gingerly opened the package. They found Sam the monkey "alive and kicking...
Discipline. To see what could be done, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Henry Kearns journeyed to Hong Kong fortnight ago. Said Kearns to a meeting of Hong Kong garment leaders for the second time in a year: "Don't reduce your exports. Just don't ship unduly heavy quantities which would wreck a specific American industry." To many a successful Hong Kong Chinese garmentmaker, voluntary curbs seem to be a high price to pay for a success built with little U.S. aid in the face of stiff Japanese and European competition. Many are balking, though Lee argues that...
...Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, 66, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) fighting admiral who captained the battle cruiser Renown that stalked and sank Germany's Bismarck in World War II, commanded the first Allied landings in the toe of Italy and was blown from his ship during the assault, was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff (1951-55); in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...knows exactly when, but it was some 2,000 years ago that a ship from Egypt was wrecked on the west coast of India, south of Bombay. Seven men and seven women survived, and an ancient cemetery at the village of Nowgow is traditionally the place where they buried the bodies of the drowned. The 14 survivors were given jobs by a Hindu oil merchant, who put them to work pressing seeds for oil (still a traditional occupation of some Bene Israel villagers). Because they refused to work on the Sabbath, the Hindus called them Shanwar Telis-Saturday...