Word: bases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four days the Argonauts gave themselves to prepare. Then they were to start reconnaissance flights toward Cape Columbia on Grant Land, where an advance air-base would be made for flights toward the Pole and into the unmapped region westward where "Crocker Land...
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, whose home is in San Francisco, paid a visit to San Diego. After several days spent in enjoying the shrewd and expansive hospitality of his San Diego friends, he announced that the huge Navy blimps, Shenandoah and Los Angeles, would move their base from Lakehurst, N. J., to San Diego...
...reasons were put forward to support this proposal: 1) Weather conditions are more favorable in San Diego; 2) the dirigibles need a Western base if they are to cooperate efficiently with the Pacific Fleet. Objectors pointed out: 1) That the Secretaries of the Navy do not create naval bases; 2) that Congress, having authorized the expenditure of $10,000,000 to build the Lakehurst hangars, may be reluctant to spend as much more to build new ones in San Diego; 3) that things other than weather affect the location of airports; if dirigibles have a military value, they are needed...
...home base of enforcement, let the politicians do their dirtiest, and you will...
Coal. Shortly both ships headed north again for the boat-base at Etah, the expedition's last sea-lap. The Bowdoin put in at Umanak en route, where 80 much-appreciated tons of coal were shipped (thanks to the Danish Government's courtesy in waiving the danger of a fuel shortage in Greenland). Aboard the Peary went Governor Rosendahl of 'North Greenland...