Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Includes craft building...
...Ships of several types should 'be built to fill up serious gaps in the fleet; notable among the types of ships of which none were at hand when the Fleet arrived at Panama were light cruisers, store ships, destroyer tenders, colliers, tugs, seaplanes, repair ships, lighter-than-air craft and miscellaneous auxiliaries...
Some time ago Japanese submarine No. 43 went down with all hands. Intensive efforts were made to salvage the craft before the 49 officers and men died of suffocation, but it was not until 25 days later that the boat could be raised...
Ballooning is perhaps the one outdoor sport where brains count for everything. The pilots study meteorological conditions round their particular starting point for months. True the wind is the sole driving, force, but its direction and intensity vary from height to height. The: thing is to keep the craft at that altitude where the wind effects are most: favorable. Suppose a balloon im equilibrium at a certain height. The: sun may come out, heat the hydrogen, contained within the gas, cause it to rise too high. The unskilled pilot: may let out gas in too much of a hurry, drop...
...century, and has earned the soubriquet "father of the big navy." In the 19th Century he predicted that competitive naval building would result in a limitation agreement. He now says that the Washington agreements of 1921 are being evaded by other nations which are now constructing smaller craft. He advocates another conference...