Word: coast
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such a system will be the hydraulic cement to bind together all the magnificent building blocks -- an increased army, an increased navy, strengthened coast fortifications, coast railroads and waterways, the co-ordination of our industrial resources and energies -- into an enduring structure of peace, security and immunity from attack or insult. REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY...
...United States Military Training Camps Association has announced the time and location for the camps to be held in the Eastern and Central Departments in the summer of 1917. The Eastern Department, comprising the Atlantic coast states and those west of the lower Mississippi and the Ohio will have its senior encampment at Plattsburg, N. Y. Four campst will be held as follows: June 2 to July 1; July 7 to August 5; August 11 to September 9, and September 15 to October 14. Junior camps in this department for boys between 15 and 18 years of age will...
Orders have been received announcing details, Sergeant Walter Bender, 8th V. S. Cavalry, and Sergeant William Lynch, Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A., for duty at the University. Other sergeant instructors will follow...
...What regard has the British Admiralty shown, during the course of the war, for the rights or convenience of Americans on the seas? One naturally feels prompted to ask further: "If the loss of American lives, resulting from our insistence on entering the war-zone established around the sea-coast of the Entente Powers, constitutes a casus belli, why may we not put into practice the sound policy embodied in the ill-fated McLemore Resolution, tabled, contrary to the best conviction of the majority of our Congressmen in response to dictatorial party pressure brought to bear upon them? In thus...
...unit, the objection being that such a unit would mean the concentration of material of the same kind, the diffusion of which would insure its better utilization. But for those men who are desirous of joining the army the committee recommends the Engineers' Corps, Coast Artillery and Ordnance Department...