Word: steersmen
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Last week Congressmen heard that Navy Secretary Forrestal was willing to give in even on this question, dear as it was to Navymen's hearts. Thus encouraged, G.O.P. steersmen were getting ready to put merger up to the 80th Congress: it would provide some of the budget economies they had promised...
R.O.T.C. men will be rotated among a large number of duties in order to acquaint them with all the complicated workings of modern naval vessels. They will serve in the ranks, as section leaders and division officers, deckmen, signalmen, steersmen, engineers, navigation officers, and gunners...
...essential instruments of the enclosed lower portion duplicated on a hurricane bridge above. On the bridge no great spoked wheel governs the Oslofjord's, helm, but a modern button-control system-a button for port and one for starboard. To the suggestion that old-line Norse steersmen might prefer the traditional twirl of the wheel to this newfangled steering, weathered Captain Kjeld Irgens, commodore of the Norwegian America fleet, had a gruff answer. "Quartermasters," said he grimly, "shall learn to like...
...that he is coming out regularly again. Alvan Fox comes next in the ranking, with George Shortlidge of the recent Freshmen following him. Joseph Elcock and James Snow, who coxed for Bill Rowe's ace Freshman crew of two seasons back, are also possibilities in a large field of steersmen...
Freshmen coxswains will gather with their classmates, and especially good opportunities are open to them, as shortage of steersmen has been a perplexing problem in recent years...