Word: decks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After taking counsel of the Department of State, Representative Butler, Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, reported last week a vigorous Naval Constitution Bill, appropriating $110,560,000. The bill calls for the conversion of the six defective battleships into oil-burners, blister protection against submarines, further deck protection against air attack, and new fire controls on the New York and Texas-the whole at a cost of $18,360,000. In addition, the building program calls for eight scout cruisers, costing $11,000,000 each, and six river gunboats (for Chinese service) at $700,000 each...
...standing on deck when I saw a carriage driving furiously up to the quay, surrounded by a guard of shabby arquebussiers--a lady was dragged out of the carriage and shoved up the plank on to the ship. An old man jerked her toward me and put a letter in my hand. 'An order from the King!' said he, 'a prisoner' of State to be taken to Louisiana and delivered to the Governor...
...President personally hung the Congressional Medal of Honor around the neck of Henry Breault, torpedoman, second class, U. S. N. On Oct. 28, 1923, Breault was aboard the submarine O-5 sunk in Limon Bay off the Panama Canal in collision with the merchantship Abangares. He reached the deck before the submarine sank, discovered that one of his comrades was trapped below. He rushed down, shut a water-tight door and remained with his shipmate until the submarine was raised by a salvage party 38 hours later...
OUTWARD BOUND-An excursion upon the vast ocean of the hereafter, en- thralling and moving, with a remarkable cast on deck to incite to thought...
...navy without an air-force is like a boxer entering a fight blind-folded;" whereupon to prove his point, General Patrick proceeded to show some terrifying pictures of the bombing of the battleship Alabama. Exactly six minutes elapsed between the moment when the 2000 lb, bomb struck the deck of the doomed ship to the time when its keel disappeared beneath the sea. And to show how much the art of air-offence has improved, nowadays three air-planes can drop in one fight as many tons of bombs as were dropped on London during the entire war. Indeed...