Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last March Touré received a shipment of arms from Czechoslovakia that included 3,000 rifles and automatic weapons. Last week another shipment (the third) arrived on a Polish vessel. When Paris expressed alarm at the deals, Touré angrily denounced the "hostile attitude of French diplomacy...
...hand to record it, in all its complexities. The captain praised him after the battle, saying, "By his alert, active, analytical work in recording the events of the action; by his keen fighting spirit . . . ;and by his calm manner he contributed to the general and overall performance of the vessel...
...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...