Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the half-mile of parked lawn and public buildings between the White House and the Navy League headquarters, "Admiral" Gardiner fired the first shots: Abysmal ignorance! Bigger and bloodier wars...
...food supplies be immunized during war, "Admiral" Gardiner concluded thus: "The most humanitarian of pacific intentions led President Hoover into exhibiting the abysmal ignorance of why navies are maintained and of how they are used to accomplish their major mission. . . . Acceptance of his suggestion that would have made for bigger and bloodier wars. Yet such is the psychology that is not only controlling our internal naval policy but dictating its external subordination to those of foreign naval powers. It has been necessary to say what has been said to have a real appreciation of the impelling motives back of President...
...diagrams to show relative naval expenditures. The U. S. spent $375,291,828 on its Navy last year, he said, whereas "the British Empire" put out $349.927,670 which did not include naval aviation. He harped on the higher costs of naval construction in the U. S., stressed bigger pay, better food for U. S. sailors, declared that the U. S. spent less on its Navy in relation to national income than any other big power. Said he: "It is a matter of serious concern to the Navy that organizations [like W. P. F.] . . . interpret national defense statistics...
Fishermen agreed that the spars of a boat which could beat Bluenose were still in a tree, that the Thebaud was handicapped mainly by her size. But since even the Thebaud is too big to be efficient for fresh fishing, fishermen saw little sense in building a bigger challenger, little use in the Thebaud's challenging again...
...materially affect the ship's performance. The $25,000 penalty provided for that overweight will not be collected by the Navy. As for speed, Designer Arnstein and Commander Rosendahl declared there was no doubt the fault would be remedied by the new propellers which will take a "bigger bite" of the air. But the builder may be penalized for the shortcoming...