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...Swasey Co., pioneer manufacturers of astronomical and optical apparatus, fine machine tools, precision instruments, military and naval rangefinders. Under his direction were built the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim to fame is probably the establishment, through a gift of $500,000, of the Engineering Foundation, a joint research agency of the "big four" national engineering societies?civil, mechanical, electrical, mining-and-metallurgical...
...twelve mile limit while " safeguarding, as a cardinal feature of British policy, the principle of a three-mile limit; that, while accepting the principle of a further limitation of armaments, three principles of Imperial defence must be recognized: 1) The deep interest of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand and India in the provision of a naval base at Singapore as essential for insuring the mobility necessary to provide for the security of the territories and trade of the empire in eastern waters; 2) necessity for the maintenance of safe passage along the great route...
Seventy-two ironclads swept past the visiting Dominion Premiers at Spithead, the roadstead off Portsmouth. It was the first Royal Naval review to be held since July, 1914. It was also said to have been " the smallest number of naval vessels mustered at a formal British Fleet review...
...which we flow enjoy in wheat cotton, and other raw materials. Since the passage of the Frozenly Tariff the United States is hardly in a position to complain much over unreasonable duties. Consequently it seems that Americans must stand by and observer, with the constant hope that some important dominion will frustrate that whole scheme...
...smaller Colonies; consideration of Premier Bruce's plan to form an Empire purchasing pool for food and raw materials; scheme for ensuring preference on public contracts; scheme for developing outlying parts of Empire; consideration of League of Nations and its conduct in the recent Italo-Greek dispute (all Dominion Premiers were solid in favor of the Commonwealth supporting the League to the utmost of its ability...