Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the world. In its wake came the following developments: United States. The Senate passed (65-to-18) the House bill to build the U. S. Navy up to Treaty strength in seven years (TIME, Feb. 5). Cost: $750,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. Ships: one airplane carrier, 99,200 tons of destroyers (65), 35-530 tons of submarines (30). Aircraft: a number "commensurate with a Treaty navy." Author of the bill was Georgia's Carl Vinson. Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee. Washington's two Senators tacked on amendments, one to allow Pacific Coast...
...December, Duranty was at his elbow. If any one man could be said to have reconciled Capitalist U. S. and Communist Russia, Duranty is the man. Critics have accused him of being no newshawk but a dove of peace who from long association with Soviet eagles has become their carrier pigeon. But unbiased readers of Duranty Reports Russia will agree that on the whole Duranty has done a difficult job objectively and well. From the twelve-year files of his dispatches to the Times his good friend Gustavus Tuckerman Jr., New York University instructor, has selected enough...
...Mare Island Navy Yard; in 1924 an instructor at the Naval War College at Newport. From that post he was assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics at Washington, a circumstance that gave a major twist to his career. Soon after he was sent to San Diego, given the aircraft carrier Langley and made commander of the aircraft squadron of the battle fleet. In that post he was credited with doing a masterful job in whipping the Navy's air force into an effective fighting unit. After a year he was made a rear admiral, but in spite...
...included in last year's total was the 12½-mi. spur which Andrew William Mellon's little Montour finally completed in the face of injunctions plastered on almost every mile post (TIME, Oct. 23). A Federal Court ruled that the Montour spur was no common carrier but a private Mellon carrier, used only by Pittsburgh Coal...
From Sydney went Vice-Admiral Hyde of Australia which has bought and paid for such fine new war boats as the 10,000-ton cruisers Canbeera (Flagship) and Australia, possesses also the older and smaller cruisers Adelaide and Brisbane, the seaplane carrier Albatross and five destroyers...