Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hull than the Indianapolis. Her butt straps (where plates overlap) were welded, thus saving precious weight in rivets. Weight saved was put into armor plate. The Indianapolis is armored only in vital spots. The New Orleans, paragon of her group, can stop an 8-in. shell anywhere. Her after deck will be placed further aft than those of previous Treaty cruisers. permitting the installation of more than the usual eight anti-aircraft guns. Other ordnance: nine 8-in. guns in three turrets; eight 5-in. guns; six torpedo tubes. She also carries four planes...
...gained control of the Legislature and no relief can be obtained from that source . . . has boasted publicly that he controlled its members like a deck of cards, bought them like loads of potatoes . . . escaped impeachment by bribery and other corrupt methods...
...upper deck to float free of a sinking ship...
...city government. McKee was for twenty > backing in the Bronx and Queens Democratic machine. While no one can reasonably object to the substitution of McKee's chubby face for O'Brien's anthropoidal features, the change would have no other importance. The city is offered a different deck of cards, but like the other, it is stacked...
...home in the spring, that home will be empty. They had still another reason for moving the treasure. Nanking, the ramshackle half-rebuilt new capital of China, has always been jealous of the solid magnificence that the Manchus gave Peiping. With the Forbidden City treasure to deck Nanking (there is as yet no fit place in Nanking to display it) the new city will have the dignity befitting a great capital...