Word: cocos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naval air service; 3) establishment of an airship base on the Pacific coast; 4) replacement of the Shenandoah as soon as practicable with a ship of about twice her size; 5) a five year program of airplane and airship construction; 6) provision for adequate air stations at Coco Solo and Pearl Harbor; 7) improvement in aviation training-facilities at Annapolis; 8) settlement of the flight-pay question; 9) encouragement of private airplane builders by liberality in letting naval air contracts...
...from the budget estimate for naval aviation, making the appropriation $57,174 less than last year's. The development program for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and Coco Solo, Canal Zone, was deprived of appropriations on the ground that it had never been approved...
...traveled 17 miles from Porto Bello under cover of a smoke screen. Despite a very rough sea they effected a landing between 4 and 5am. A detachment of 400 attacked Fort Randolph and captured it from its defenders, who numbered 1 than half as many. Another detachment took the Coco Solo aviation field (defended by 70 mechanics) and submarine base, "destroying" submarine supplies and capturing all aeroplanes on the ground...
LOUISIANA: Attorney-General Coco completed his investigation of the Mer Rouge murders, and is prepared to submit his findings to a grand jury...