Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy is presently going through the most tremendous change it has ever undergone. It is passing from steam to nuclear power, from gunpowder to nuclear weapons, from guns to guided missiles, and in the air, from propeller-type planes to supersonic planes, all at the same time...
...years to come (although some of Burke's visionaries see a time when the entire nuclear, missile-armed Navy will move underwater) the admirals plan that the heart of the task force will remain the attack carrier with its steam catapults, mirror landing system, angled flight deck, and mobile strike power. Forrestal and Saratoga will be joined by Ranger, Independence and a still-nameless carrier, all now under construction...
...drawing boards and at test centers, the Navy's jet design lagged behind the Air Force, and behind the more realistic threats of Russian aircraft. The Bureau of Ships had not kept pace: for its carriers, the Navy was forced to take over British inventions-the steam catapult, the angled deck, the mirror landing system...
With control of the U.S. Senate (present count: 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans, one vacancy) hinging on the outcome, both parties have applied steam-boiler pressure in recent months to push known vote getters into the most critical of this year's 32 senatorial contests. Last week the pressure from the Democratic boiler pushed Nevada's easygoing, cherubic Alan Bible, 46, elected in 1954 to fill the unexpired term of the late Pat McCarran, into a contest for which he had little taste: another Nevada Democratic primary campaign...
...think it is. Tests of the hospital's own soap showed it contained 3,500,000 germ organisms per cubic centimeter. Contaminating bacteria from staff members' clothing found their way into solutions used for rinsing surgical gloves and instruments. Henceforth, the hospital will sterilize soap containers by steam under pressure and add chemical germicides to rinsing solutions...