Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...build or not to build was not the question. When to build quite overshadowed all. President Coolidge had been willing to admit that perhaps the Navy does need 15 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier (TIME, Feb. 11 et ante). But they need not all be begun within three years, was his point. It would be so expensive ($274,000,000). It would seem so warlike. It might inconvenience the Budget...
...bill on which the Senate was trying to act was, on its face, quite simple. As passed by the House it authorized the Navy Department to build five cruisers each year for the next three years, and one small aircraft carrier. The total cost of this program was estimated at $274,000,000. The cruisers would have a displacement of 10,000 tons each, as permitted in unlimited numbers by the disarmament treaty of 1922. Each cruiser, armed and ready for battle, would represent an investment of $17,000,000. The Navy has argued that it needs this new auxiliary...
...President Coolidge heard his support of commercial aviation praised by retired Major Lester D. Gardner, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. "You harmonized differences of opinion," said Major Gardner, "and replaced confusion with orderly discussion through the agency of the Aircraft Board under the chairmanship of Dwight Whitney Morrow...
Most important trumps in the game were the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga. The Lexington, part of the defending Blue fleet, was put out of action early, partly owing to a freak of the weather. Black Admiral William Veazie Pratt shrewdly detached the Saratoga from his fleet, sent it hundreds of miles to the south and west. Not until it was ready to attack did the Blue scouting cruisers and destroyers discover the whereabouts of the Black fleet's chief threat. By then it was too late. In the early morning the Saratoga pushed her bow into the wind...
Last week Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo delivered its first 32-passenger flying boat, the Admiral, to the Navy, whose men tried it out at once at Anacostia, D. C., and found it reliable. The event was significant. In the present industrialization of aeronautics two factors have become highly important- private and commercial exploitation. Some twoscore aircraft companies are making small planes for private gadabouting. Less than a dozen are important manufacturers of great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip...