Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aerial sphere of coast defense, objected to the Navy's use of Federal funds to build land planes and operate them from land bases. The Navy insisted that, for tactical reasons, it needed a land-based force for sea patrol. The rivalry reached a climax in the Canal Zone and at Hawaii where each service maintains a large air fleet almost identical in character if not in purpose...
...however, the Army, jealous of the Navy's growing aerial land strength began agitating for a change. The Army's patent purpose was to get for itself the money the Navy was spending on land planes and land bases at Hampton Roads, San Diego, Pearl Harbor and Panama Canal Zone by showing that their operation was not necessary to the fleet...
...head of the baby his wife held and the round head of the baby in Mrs. Bamberger's lap. They explained : Mrs. Watkins' baby was her first, Mrs. Bamberger's her third. First babies usually have warped heads because they must force their way through the bony unused birth canal. In a few weeks the soft head of a first baby assumes its hereditary shape...
Chief complainant was Republican Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California. Stirred to action by loud protests from the California Cattlemen's Association, he charged that the Army & Navy were buying their beef from Australia and New Zealand to supply outposts in the Philippines, Hawaii, the Canal Zone. It was claimed that a city of 100,000 could subsist on these foreign meat purchases, which exceeded 6,500,000 Ib. per year. Other provender which the Army & Navy have been buying in part abroad included beans, cereals, dairy products. The Cal- ifornia Cattlemen's Association pointed out that Hawaiian beef...
...guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew continuously overhead eight hours-record at that time. This experiment was made, and successfully too, for the great effort to bomb Heligoland-Kiel Canal, never attempted due to British opposition. Forty sea planes, mates to above described, were to do the job. Eight hours to over 500 hours in 12 years, that is progress. T. S. DOBRIN Minneapolis, Minn...