Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, Captain Rickover's task was a lot nearer completion than either the Navy or the tight-lipped Atomic Energy Commission would admit officially. The Pentagon released a curt, one-sentence statement saying that it had awarded a contract for an atomic sub to the Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn. "From now on," said an AEC director, "you can gauge our progress by the increase in vagueness of our reports...
Armed with a top priority, Rickover gathered a staff of bright young officers with a mathematical bent, went with them to the AEC's giant Oak Ridge plant for an atomic refresher course. His engineers and sub men pored over old Annapolis manuals and textbooks on steam turbines, rigged one up, and started figuring ways to hitch it to an atomic boiler. In Washington, the Bureau of Ships began designing a thick new hull to hold the new engine...
Some of the youngsters gave their elders some real scores to shoot at. Edward Harris, a twelve-year-old Galveston boy, knocked down 100 of 100 birds in the Sub-Junior championship for a new world's record. In the Junior division Robert Smith, 16, from Silver Spring, Md., hit 248 out of 250 for another world's record...
Through '41 and '42, as the U-boats up their toll of Allied vessels, the Compass Rose rides dogged herd on its sheeplike formations, manages to bag one enemy sub. Then a night torpedo sends the corvette herself to the bottom. Only eleven of her officers and crew of 88, among them Captain Ericson and First Officer Lockhart, survive. These two, in the frigate Saltash, see the war against the U-boats shift from woefully inadequate defense to ruthlessly efficient pursuit...
Emergencies are standard practice in Dr. Shultz's vast domain, which stretches 225 miles long, 150 miles wide, from 14.495-foot Mount Whitney (the U.S.'s highest) to sub-sea-level Death Valley...