Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 9 article "Unlucky Ship" has been read throughout our ship, the U.S.S. Silverstein DE-534. It is our opinion that you have done our ship and our skipper a great injustice especially for the phrase "the Bad Ship Silverstein." The Silverstein is the best ship in the U.S. Navy, and the crew is proud to serve...
...short," wrote the New York Times Military Correspondent (and Annapolis-man) Hanson Baldwin, "some sections . . . believe that the carrier is no longer the queen of the seas and that the missile submarine is the future capital ship of the world's fleets." Baldwin added a sailor's salty appraisal that "the carrier is still useful but less so than in the past...
GERMAN VOLKSWAGENS are in such demand (a six-month wait in some U.S. cities) that U.S. dealers have started to buy used cars in West Germany for premium prices, ship them to U.S., sell them for new-model price (about...
...power, making it possible for all 82 crewmen to escape unhurt. Silverstein's sea lawyers cheerfully gave the submarine all the blame, and Stickleback's skipper even admitted that he had unaccountably lost power during his dive. But all the same the crewmen of the Bad Ship Silverstein would never forget that, in addition to all their other troubles, they had now sunk a friendly submarine in friendly waters...
...Before manned space flight is realized, more Sputniks with animals on board will have to be launched. Return to earth is necessary for a manned space craft, and this problem, too, has not been solved. "My opinion," he says cautiously, "is that in the next 20 years we may ship men out to the neighbor planets...