Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having spoken in the Gould gambling house at Nice, and having been roundly cheered, popular Gastounet proceeded to Villefranche - the town where tourists on the Riviera always see French war boats. Boarding the cruiser Colbert amid a 21-gun salute, Gastounet sailed for Tunis...
...bandit, General Augusto Sandino, who had voluntarily announced suspension of hostilities, was not to blame. But on Nicaragua's east coast bandits of some sort killed U. S. Marine Captain Harlem Pefley, Lieut. Darrah and Sergeant Taylor at Logtown, surrounded another Marine detachment from the U. S. cruiser Asheville (rumor said 25 Marines were killed), caused the U. S. cruiser Memphis to dash over from Guantanamo Bay with a rescue force...
...from the Canal Zone came the cruiser Rochester. The transport Chaumont, due at Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than...
Finally the budget provides for building a second super-cruiser like the famed Ertsatz Prcussen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). As pacifists, the Socialists stomached this hateful appropriation only when Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich consented to find the money by doubling the German surtax, i.e. poor Socialist workmen who naturally pay no surtax (a luxury of the rich) will not pay one pfennig toward the new war boat...
...about for years and finally take. For two years Mr. Davis has been at his post in Manila. Lately he was joined by newly-appointed Vice-Governor George Charles Butte, felt free to travel. He knew that the 26-year-old Pittsburgh was about to be relieved by the cruiser Houston as flagship of the Asiatic fleet, was then to steam to Norfolk Navy Yard and be scrapped. Perhaps sorry to see the old ship go to her grave, Governor Davis secured her for his tour. She was freshly painted, and six weeks ago she cleared from Manila for Saigon...