Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NROTC men not graduating this month will spend the fortnight from June 12 to June 26 gaining practical experience in various activities of the First Naval District, including a week on a sub-chaser, Captain George N. Barker, professor of Naval Science and Tactics, announced last night...
...this has happened in varying degree to all other airplane makers. To achieve the present production, Henry Ford himself was forced to change a basic policy. When Willow Run was built, Ford mistakenly vetoed all Army suggestions that some parts for the Liberators be produced elsewhere. Now the sub-assemblies are being farmed out in the Detroit area...
...Nobel Prize achievement, ten years ago, was devising wave mechanics to reconcile the seeming contradictions in the nature of light. Light unquestionably has a wave motion, yet it obeys the quantum laws as if it were composed of particles or small bundles of energy. Schrödinger imagined a sub-ether filled with ripples too small for detection. He conceived of a "particle" of light as an "area of ripples," a wave-throb that is detectable by instruments...
...Radio Rome once asked: "Who cares about American radio nonsense?" Apparently some Italians do, for the Italian stations are forever burlesquing U.S. broadcasts, Sample: "An American sub named Comfort Station, manned by five men and a lady assistant, Miss Higgins, has sunk the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean. All Italy's aghast...
Smoke billowed out from the Jap's hatches. Lashed by the New Zealander's gunfire, the sub limped towards shore. Off Cape Esperance it suddenly went down at the stern. Said the New Zealand skipper: "There she rested on a reef, and she's still there with 30 or 40 feet of her bow in the air pointed towards Tokyo. I ordered the rum broken out for each...