Word: forrestall
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A switch flicked. The microphone in the Secretary of the Navy's office came alive. Along the cavernous halls of the sprawling ten-winged Navy Building, up & down the corridors of the Navy Annex across the Potomac, through all the temporary Navy buildings cluttering the Mall, boomed the taut...
Finally, the Committee called in Under Secretary James V. Forrestal. He conceded that the Committee had brought up a sensible question, "human nature being what it is."
Other vital statistics in Forrestal's report revealed that the 45,000-ton Iowas carry 148 antiaircraft barrels, ranging from 20 mm. up to five-inch dual purpose guns. The first of the 35,000-ton North Carolina class, commissioned in 1941 after a two-decade battleship-building holiday...
The Navy's total might is a military secret, hinted at occasionally by such statistics as the U.S. strength in the Marshall Islands attack: 2,000,000 tons (see p. 26). The U.S. public could get some further idea from a report made public by Under Secretary of the...
¶By Vice Admiral John S. McCain: the number of U.S. aircraft carriers (now over 40) will be "approximately doubled" in the next few months. By Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal: the U.S. will build twice as many cruisers this year as last, but major emphasis will be...