The Gage And The Measure*

By Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, U. S. Navy (Retired)
April 1951
The Main Stream of History In the recent modern history of mankind, a well defined stream of history can be clearly discerned. It flows from the supremely authoritative feudalism of ...

Risky Rescue

By Commander F. S. Bayley Jr., U. S. Naval Reserve (Inactive)
April 1951
WHEN the PCE(R) 851 first entered Pearl Harbor, it completed a full circuit of Ford Island before the signal tower understood what kind of a ship it was. Whether the ...

And Your Task, Dear Partner

By Assistant Professor Robert M. Langdon, U.S. Naval Academy
April 1951
On December 9, 1941, any question as to the extent of Japanese-Nazi cooperation was abruptly and forcefully answered, for the Pearl Harbor attack had been followed on December 9 by ...

The Jets Come of Age

By Commander Harvey P. Lanham, U. S. Navy
April 1951
"These jets,” said the yellow jerseyed flight deck plane director, patting the tip tank of a sleek Grumman Panther, “had some of the flight deck crew pretty worried at ...

The Guam Story

By Lieutenant (J.G.) William Thompson, U.S. Navy
April 1951
When Mr. Carlton Skinner assumed the duties of Governor of Guam in September, 1949, it marked the first time the island was governed by a civilian in the fifty years ...

The Navy’s Oceanographic Survey Vessels

By Thomas S. Austin, U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office
April 1951
As has been frequently mentioned, the science of modern oceanography had its inception approximately one hundred and eight years ago with the appointment of Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S. Navy ...

Czar's Communism

By Carl Platon von Wrangell
April 1951
To the great delight of Karl Marx, the first translation of Das Kapital was into Russian. During the Czarist regime, between 1864 and 1914, 500,000 copies of Marx’s works were ...

Lead Kindly Light

By Lieutenant Kenneth A. Andersen, U.S. Navy
April 1951
The worst navigator in the world can lead a happy life five hundred miles at sea with plenty of blue water under the keel. He may be fifty miles from ...

The David Taylor Model Basin

By Lieutenant (J.G.) Arthur P. Miller, Jr., U.S. Naval Reserve
April 1951
Eighty years ago, a naval architect would have smiled had anyone suggested that it would be a wise idea to try his design on a scale model before translating it ...

Discussions, Comments and Notes

April 1951
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Book Reviews

April 1951
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Professional Notes

April 1951
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