Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sister of the Yorktown and Enterprise, smaller than the 33,000-ton Saratoga and Lexington, bigger than the Ranger and Wasp, Hornet is one of five carriers ordered before the U. S. decided on a two-ocean Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would...
...first half of Beecher's poem is made up of a series of portrait-sketches of his ancestral relatives-the blacksmith Beechers whose guns were held at present-arms when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown; Harriet Beecher Stowe, whom Lincoln called "the little lady who made the great war"; Henry Ward Beecher, who, on being handed his diploma at Amherst, was told by the college's president, "Well, this is the last we shall hear of you, Mr. Beecher"; Thomas K. Beecher, who chose to be a small-town preacher...