Word: battleships
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...unexplored, save here and there by blind plummets and groping dragnets. So for years Dr. Hartman, financially independent, has experimented-aided by that bathysophical enthusiast, the late Prince of Monaco ; by colleagues in the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences ; and by the U. S. Navy- with a battleship-steel, plate-glass-windowed chamber in which he would cause himself to be lowered to ocean depths far more profound than any living man had previously attained...
...divisions at Melbourne and Sydney (TIME, Aug. 3, 10) closed their visits by giving balls. The enthusiasm and goodwill of the populace was evident from the fact that one battleship had been designated at each port as the scene of a reception and a ball, but at Melbourne alone it was necessary to use three battleships to accommodate the crowd...
...Navy Department announced tests of anti-aircraft fire against a sausage-shaped target, 10 ft. in diameter, 45 ft. long, towed by the Shenandoah at 33 mi. an hour, more than 4,000 ft. up, and fired at by 3-in. guns from the battleship Texas. Six hundred and thirty-five rounds of shrapnel were fired. The target showed 763 holes, 11 made by unexploded shells...
...Scott promised other and more spectacular performances of the "stroke." He sought an antiquated battleship upon which to demonstrate. In Washington, officials had no definite plans for supplying the battleship but followed the inventor's work closely, deeply interested...
...River to the Fore River Shipyards of the Bethlehem Ship Building Corporation. There he looked up at the giant unfinished hulk of the Lexington, the Navy's giant, speedy airplane carrier-to-be. There he was saluted by Captain Felipe Fleiss of the Argentine Navy, Commander of the battleship Rivadavia which (with the Moreno) is being converted from a coal to an oil burner at Fore River...