Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readers that December dangers which had drowned the Dawn threatened the dirigible. She was too big, too safe to shrink from weather which might kill a heavier-than-air machine. Some few were perplexed. If dirigibles are so dependable, they wondered, why all this bother about airplanes. Why not build dirigibles instead...
...been to subdue rebellious nations by means of blockade. But this country is inaccessible, rich, and self supporting. Moreover, despite the passionate pacificism of many of its citizens who realize the butchering possibilities of another war, America calmly pursues an intensive program of military training, and will now build each year five cruisers of the type most effective for modern naval combat, to prepare herself for war with England or Japan. These factors being taken into consideration, a suggestion from the United States that war be stopped merely by the assumption of moral responsibility was not the thing to make...
When questioned as to the future possibilities of safety devices, he said. "The Navy Department now uses every modern safety appliance possible and the most likely thing that could be done would be to build larger derricks, but when one considers the descents made each year by thousands of submarines, the small number of accidents, and the wide area which the submarines cover this plan seems almost a physical impossibility...
...take five years to complete. The "speculative" cost of the first five-year program, submitted last week, was put at $725,000,000. The U. S. could pay that sum in two years out of its tobacco taxes alone. The cost of the entire 20-year Navy building plan was estimated at $2,900,000,000 or about one-sixth of the present national debt. In advocating the new program, which was transmitted by Secretary Wilbur to Speaker Longworth of the House and thence to the Naval Affairs Committee, President Coolidge assured questioners that it did not conflict with...
...flat- "Without inspiring power, it will fail. "The Church can give to men ideals, purposes, power. "In the lives of prophets and heroes and in the life of Jesus Christ, the Church holds up the ideals by which character and achievement must be measured. "In the call to help build the Kingdom of God on earth, the Church presents the purpose which can give new meaning to everything...