Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy Retreats. The Utah, sunk in her old age by Japanese bombers, lay rusting on the floor of Pearl Harbor when, in 1947, the Navy decided that Mrs. Crawshaw was entitled to a partial pension. She was not satisfied with a halfway victory, and continued to fight. In 1948, she forced the Navy to list Crawshaw's death as an accident...
...regatta at Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, on Aug. 6, 1921, was a gay and notable affair. King George V and Queen Mary appeared amid pennants and bunting, and the town swarmed with bluejackets from the U.S. battleship Utah, which lay offshore. One of them, Chief Yeoman Ralph Everett Crawshaw, a quiet young man, was mail clerk on the Utah. Whether or not he exercised a sailor's prerogative and got drunk that gala day was a question which for 30 years was to bother Navy brass, four U.S. Presidents and seven sessions of Congress...
When Yeoman Crawshaw returned to the Utah he was dressed down by an officer for not bringing the ship's mail from Cowes. Next morning Crawshaw could not be found. A board of officers decided he had become "mentally demoralized by the use of intoxicating liquor or a drug," had crawled through a porthole and been lost at sea. The board ruled that Crawshaw's death was a result of misconduct...
...talks, the Gallup poll reported. But it still found only 29% of the people approving him. ¶ Succeeded in his first effort to end a strike through the Wage Stabilization Board. Nine hundred members of the United Steel Workers ( C.I.O.) voted to go back to work at the Garfield, Utah plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co., after the President said defense production was threatened...
...Arizona. Part of it might be diverted from a Colorado tributary, the San Juan, and turned into the Rio Grande watershed for desperately water-short New Mexico. It might be exported to eastern Colorado, or to the Bonneville Basin around Great Salt Lake, where the growing industries of Utah are screaming for water. Thus the abundant flow of the Klamath could bring new life to dry lands more than 1,000 miles away...