Word: battleship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British and U. S. warships, says Jane's, are stodgy, orthodox. Pioneering in naval construction has passed to the smaller naval powers: Japan, France, Germany. The latter's "pocket battleship," Ersatz Preussen," is quite the most remarkable warship produced since...
Though unquestionably guilty, the nice old gentleman has so many potent friends in Spain that all through the spring, summer and fall he lived luxuriously in the officers' quarters of a Spanish battleship anchored off Valencia. He has just been acquitted by the supreme war tribunal before which he resolutely professed his guilt...
Early last week he was let off the battleship, ushered into a first-class reserved compartment on the de luxe train for Madrid. There he is free, although well watched...
Second star witness was Charles Michael Schwab, benevolent-looking Chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp. He declared that he would like to see every battleship sunk, he never met Mr. Shearer so far as he recalled, regarded his employment as unwise. Said...
...Last week, citizens again saw the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, as fireworks went off and Baltimore in bunting celebrated the 115th anniversary of siege and anthem, also the 200th anniversary of Baltimore's city charter. The Navy sent to Baltimore the big-gunned battleship New York and five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three soldierly divisions paraded with artillery, cavalry, tanks. Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, orated patriotically. In pageant and parade appeared facsimiles of Poet Edgar Allen Poe, Philanthropist Johns Hopkins...