Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defending the U. S. in command of the Battle Force was Admiral Luke McNamee aboard his flagship California. His "Blue" fleet consisted of the battleships New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, Colorado and West Virginia, nine 7,500-ton cruisers, 40 destroyers, 15 submarines, the aircraft carrier Langley and miscellaneous tender and supply ships. Lighter and swifter, the Black fleet was to try to cut through this heavy-hitting cordon of capital ships and ravage the coast. No troops were to be theoretically landed from transports for a permanent military invasion. The Black strength was to lie chiefly...
When the 1933 edition of Brassey's Naval Shipping Annual last month criticized the U. S. S. Colorado, Maryland and West Virginia as slow and underarmed, Admiral Pratt dolefully declared: "These battleships of ours are not the latest word, are not comparable to the Nelson and Rodney, but they are good for the time we laid them down. If we had to build new battleships now, we'd build them better...
...HOME EARLY THURSDAY Wide black rules bordered every column. The whole front page except one column, which carried the weather report and Arthur Brisbane, was crammed with news of the death, surrounding a large picture of Publisher Bonfils. PRESIDENT HOOVER DEEPLY GRIEVED . . . BONFILS MADE POST A GREAT PAPER. . . . COLORADO HAS LOST ITS GREATEST CITIZEN. There were six more pages of pictures and testimonials...
...next 40 years the Post was to become more & more a phenomenon of U. S. journalism. Unspeakably blatant, it declared itself "The Big Brother of The League of Rocky Mountain and Plains States, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana and South Dakota." It called itself a "gladiator invincible, fearless, determined, with a giant's strength, a philosopher's mentality. . . . The champion of every good, and pure, and noble, and holy and righteous cause. . . ." Sprinkled through its pages (and always over fair weather reports) was the legend "'Tis a Privilege...
Last week Colorado gasped and gasped. Affixed to the shiny blue Packard of slick Publisher Bonfils, onetime river gambler, was this year's license...