Word: spike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand last week to wish Centerline Godspeed, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Rear Admiral William Henry Purnell ("Spike") Blandy, chief of Navy Ordnance, had good reason to rub their hands with satisfaction. Navy Ordnance is in good shape, although it is faced with 1) the monumental job of fitting out a two-ocean navy; 2) supplying ordnance to Great Britain and her allies; 3) arming Coast Guard vessels and Army transports; 4) preparing to arm U.S. merchant ships...
...Blandy, whose consuming passions are ordnance and gunnery. When he was gunnery officer on the U.S.S. New Mexico from 1927 to 1929, the battleship twice won the Battle-Efficiency Pennant ("Meatball" to the sailors) as well as a pair of gunnery trophies and two turret Es. Says a pal: "Spike's idea of a perfect target practice was to shoot the masts off the target ship from 8,000 yards, starting with the top and working down. Throwing shells into the hull was shooting fish in a bucket...
There are a few other Sophs you might tab, such as the picket-runners Billings, Tobin and Messer, and the running guard, "Spike" Sisson, and Bud Cushing, a whale of a center as Syracuse will attest, and the big tackle, Anderson. But I'm just about running to the end of my list...
...togs, underwear, and other equipment is dumped into three huge machines in a University laundry whose equal only the Army can boast. Two barrels of soap even larger than the one John Hawkins hid in are consumed every week in washing the equipment; plenty of "sour" is added to spike any and all odors; and the bleach removes stains and discoloring...
...Manhattan Company Building, world's fourth tallest commercial structure; in Neptune, N.J. Completed in 1930 in an "altitude race" with the Chrysler Building, the bank was the world's tallest office building (927 ft.) until a few months later when the Chrysler's crowning spike touched...