Word: flagships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From his flagship, westward bound for the Marshall Islands, the commander of the Bikini atom-bomb test broadcast to the U.S.: "Another Operation Crossroads is about to be executed by the Columbia Broadcasting System in ... the Library of Congress. . . . Representative Americans . . . have gathered to consider with you the great crossroads to which the splitting of the atom has brought mankind. ... I think it will be of great importance. . . ." Thus Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy last week introduced one of radio's greatest public-service programs...
...even airmen admit, the greatest hazard to safe, speedy flying is the weather-beaten air. Item: fortnight ago the pilot of a fogbound American Airlines flagship piled into a California mountain peak, killing all 27 people aboard-the worst commercial air disaster on record. This accident would perhaps never have happened had all the war-born safety devices been in general...
...Norfolk Navy Yard last week shipwrights swarmed over a rakish gunboat, reconverting her into a presidential yacht for Harry Truman. She was the U.S.S. Williamsburg, lately with the Atlantic Fleet, before that a high-speed convoy flagship based in Iceland...
Taken to Admiral William F. Halsey's 45,000-ton flagship Missouri, the Japs handed over armloads of charts covering Yokosuka's approaches to serve as guides for the occupiers...
...boat advance guard ("This is Ching Lee. Get out of the way; I'm coming through," he radioed) to do battle with the Jap fleet (score: one enemy battleship and three cruisers sunk); of a heart attack; aboard a small boat carrying him to his flagship Wyoming; in Casco Bay, Me., where he was engaged in a special top-secret assignment...