Word: allaround
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee, which had scheduled but two days for the hearings, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, said his last say in behalf of the bill. According to him, the Navy needed every penny of the money because costly $65,000,000 battleships were still the best available allaround naval weapons. The nation's highest ranking seadog announced that "recent air operations on the Coast of China" had convinced him that airplanes alone could not prevent an enemy expeditionary force from landing, and that airplanes alone could not successfully prevent a blockade or act as a convoy...