Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one phase of ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare). The task of detecting, hunting-and wartime, killing-of enemy submarines is a newly emphasized science, bursting with urgency. The top U.S. antisubmariner is an admiral who has proved his versatility as a fighter pilot, on the bridge of a fighting ship, and in the Big Think climate of the Pentagon. For the story of Rear Admiral "Jimmy" Thach and his war against the underworld, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Goblin Killers...
...Beefsteak Priority. Reducing that vulnerability is the top-priority enterprise in the Navy's program for 1958-and far beyond. "The primary mission of every combat ship in the Atlantic Fleet is antisubmarine," says Admiral Jerauld Wright, commander of the Atlantic Fleet. "Everything else is secondary." And Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke has placed a no-limit ceiling on the operations of Goblin Hunter Thach and his Task Group Alfa. "If Alfa wants beefsteak for breakfast," Burke ordered, "give 'em beefsteak...
...gyroscopes, which keep an unchanging relationship to the earth (the platform of the north-south instrument, for instance, is always at the same angle to the polar axis). But the accelerometers do not remain immovable. Holding their tangential position, they must slowly tip on their platforms as the ship moves. What tips them is a motor that takes its electric cues from the accelerometers' own velocity reports...
Byproduct. This gives the system an important information byproduct in addition to distance traveled. As the cylinders move to keep alignment, the angles they form with their stable gyro platforms are computed to give the ship's location in degrees of latitude and longitude. With readings for distance traveled, plus latitude and longitude, the ship's position is clear at any moment...
...world's biggest transatlantic carriers, and 40% owned by wealthy German Cigarette Maker Philipp F. Reemtsma. Vernicos and Reemtsma put up $2,400,000 of their own money, borrowed the rest from German banks, got the big Hamburg-American Line (which has 41 freighters, one passenger ship) to manage the Hanseatic. In a poll of transatlantic traffic, they discovered a trend to tourist-class travel, shrewdly made the 1,254-passenger Hanseatic 93% tourist class and expect full booking...