Word: armor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alterations on the six older capital ships New York, Texas, Florida, Wyoming, Utah, Arkansas to blister* them as protection against submarine attack, to strengthen their deck armor against aircraft bombs and plunging fire, to replace their worn-out boilers with modern oil-burning equipment. Total cost...
...Construction of eight new scout cruisers of 10,000 tons displacement, carrying 8-inch guns, to be laid down not later than July 1, 1927. Cost each (exclusive of armor and armament...
...spite of the fact that the situation is a very "preoccupying feature of the national life." France finds her low birth rate an asset and a liability, and is consequently in a quandary. Her limited supply of cannon fodder has long been considered the weak spot in her armor against the prolific Hun. The deadly baby is Germany's strongest weapon in her ancient feud with France. The other horn of the dilemma is the fact that French economic strength depends on a society of small land-holders, so that a new born baby has almost as great a capacity...
...That much valuable information will be gained from the tests contemplated, since the opportunity of sinking the Washington will show the effectiveness of the type of armor employed on the latest war vessels...
...State Historical Society, making excavations along the banks of the Platte and Loup Rivers, layed bare the foundations of a great Indian settlement, believed to have been founded as early as 1341 and tentatively identified as the city of Quivira. Floors of large houses, pottery, and pieces of Spanish armor believed to have been taken from a massacred Spanish expedition in 1720 were discovered. The floors were circular in shape, and some as large as 60 ft. in diameter. ¶In Ober-St. Veit, a suburb of Vienna, on an oolitic cliff, a terraced settlement of an early Indo-Germanic...