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...KNOT-SHIP design has been ordered from Grumman Aircraft by the Maritime Administration. The 100-ft. test craft, weighing between 50 and 100 tons, will use hydrofoils, completely submerged winglike structures that raise the vessel's hull from the water, cut down resistance...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27--The official Soviet news agency Tass tonight described a U.S. Navy boarding of a Soviet fishing vessel as an unlawful action, but the State Department indicated it won't apologize...
...Intelligence heard that she had lived in the west central Pacific, interviewed her. To the Navy's delight, Miss Little rooted out other items in her collections-maps, charts and the journals she carefully kept for the board of missions on trips around her islands aboard the sailing vessel Morning Star. Out of the faded books and charts leaped such facts as these: how the tides swept in and the heights of shoreline cliffs, how deep the channels were and how wide the sandy beaches, where in the crystal water lay hidden coral reefs and where lay clear passage...
...assigned to N Division, which works on the knotty problem of providing nuclear propulsion for spaceships. He began to think about the great solar "wind," the sun's radiation blowing outward through the solar system, and how this solar wind might be used to drive a space vessel...
...they claim that high U.S. wages and taxes force them to fly foreign flags to compete in the international market. It costs $44,000 per month to run a U.S.-flag Liberty ship, $19,000 per month for a Liberian-flag Liberty ship. U.S. tax law requires a vessel to be amortized over 20 years, whereas convenience-flag ships usually do it in ten. The U.S. Maritime Administration recognizes these economic facts of life, tacitly encourages U.S. owners to build and operate ships under foreign flags, since they would be available...