Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maritime Administration last week ordered 25 freighters fast enough to outrun submerged submarines. The new "Manners" will be bigger than World War II's Victory ships (560 ft., 12,500 tons v. 455 ft. and 10,850 tons), faster (20 knots v. 15 knots), and will carry sub-spotting helicopters. The freighters will be built by four companies,* within two years. Total cost: $200 million...
...this one, a limping bomber, armed with a book of matches and three drums of gasoline, takes every chance in the annals of heroism, claiming half the enemy fleet destroyed; the other half is taken care of by a submarine commander, C. Dexter Collins of Chestnut Hill. Among the sub crew are Levine from Brooklyn, Gambaroni from the other side of the tracks, and George Washington Lincoln from Georgia...
After several months of speculation, testimony, hearings, and general uncertainty, the Senate Armed Services Committee finally has a draft bill that it can work over. This bill, approved by the Preparedness Sub-Committee, goes a long way toward meeting the Defense Department's objective of true Universal Military Service, but it has some reservations that will probably cause the Department, in future hearings, to ask for revision...
...Administration had requested blanket authority to draft eighteen-year-olds, but the bill as it stands now could interfere seriously with this program. In deference to the mothers of present and prospective eighteen-year-olds, who seem to constitute a politically influential group, the sub-committee's bill directs local draft boards to take all "available" men in the nineteen-to-twenty-six pool before moving into the eighteens. And to deal with the transition period for the country's colleges, the new bill provides that 75,000 men, chosen on the basis of nationwide tests, will be sent back...
Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett told the CRIMSON last night that Department officials were still going over the report of the sub-group, but would have their minds made up by this morning when they expected to be called to the Hill...