Word: canals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Board did not recommend any addition to those naval bases on our insular possessions where prohibited by the limitation or armament treaty, it plans to expedite development at the Panama Canal Zone and Hawaiian bases. Development of these two bases is especially necessary at this time. The limitation of armament treaty does not prohibit the building of light, fast cruisers. Accordingly other nations-one of whom is Japan-have specialized in ships of this type. In order to counterbalance this condition it is necessary to develop our outlying bases...
...greatest war games ever played by American warships will take place this month in the Gulf of Panama. The former Atlantic and the former Pacific fleets (now the United States fleet, under command of Admiral Hilary P. Jones) are gathering at the Canal...
...inch rifles will pour their fire into her. To prolong her agonies special shells will be used and wireless-controlled pumps will try to keep her above water. If by some desperate chance she survives, the once proud Iowa will be sold as junk. Night attacks upon the Panama Canal defenses, thought to be impregnable, will be made under the glare of searchlights and beneath the Caribbean moon. Two scout fleets of fast cruisers and destroyers will contest each other under cover of smoke screens and protecting airplanes. At the end of the month force-practice and depth-charge practice...
...Germans blew up locks on the Rhine-Hoerne canal, thus blocking an important waterway. After the French had patiently cleared away the debris, the Germans promptly sank a number of coal barges, thereby reblocking the canal...
...accepted a judgeship on the Court and is now sitting at The Hague. He has participated in all four of the opinions which the Court has handed down, and he has been in the concurring majority in each case. The Court is now hearing a dispute about the Kiel canal, and it has handed down an opinion about the nationality laws of Tunis and Morocco within the last month...