Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Affairs Committee voted last week, 15 to 1, to rewrite the Administration's Navy building program. The Committee did not wish to change the volume of the program. It only meant to make sure that the ships authorized (25 light cruisers, nine destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, five aircraft carriers) shall be laid down in five years and completed in eight years. Toward this end, the Committee erased from the bill drafted by Secretary Wilbur a clause giving the President authority to suspend building in the event of a naval limitation conference...
Ships of war, built to destroy, always look proof against destruction, especially in dock or at anchor. The kind of thing that can happen to them when least expected happened last week aboard the aircraft carrier Langley, at her dock in San Diego, Calif. Other ships of war in the harbor heard an explosion, saw a sheet of flame. Smoke poured from a gaping hole in the Langley's side abaft her bridge. Three sailors who had been working in a launch slung from the Langley's davits, struggled in the water...
...battleships 5 second line cruisers 13 light cruisers 3 aircraft carriers 106 destroyers 83 submarines...
...light cruisers 9 destroyer leaders* 32 submarines 5 aircraft carriers...
...could not report the number of aircraft manufactured during that 12- month period. But he did know, through William P. MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, between January and July of 1927, aircraft manufacturers made more planes than during all of 1926. At present, working two and three shifts of mechanics, they cannot supply the demand excited by the summer transoceanic flights and by the airmail success...