Word: dreadnought
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Died. John Harper Narbeth, 80, whose design for H.M.S. Dreadnought in 1906 revolutionized battleship building; in Gloucester, England...
...defended than by Harold Lee George. In 1921, when General Mitchell was finally allowed, under smothering restrictions, to test the battle worth of airplanes, young Lieut. George piloted one of the six Martin bombers that sank the ex-German battleship Ostfriesland, and proved to the world that even a dreadnought, under some conditions, was no match for air power. When a court-martial of generals tried Billy Mitchell for insubordination, Hal George was one of his defense witnesses...
...conception of the warplane is emerging in Europe. Today it is the Flying Fortress (B17) and Liberator (B-24). Tomorrow it will be the air dreadnought -not only capable of bombing the earth below but able and eager to fight anything aloft...
...engines are ten times as powerful as those of the old (1910) Wyoming. Her auxiliary power plant, the one that lights the lights and turns the turrets, churns up enough electricity for a city of 20,000-more horsepower (14,000) than a pre-World War I dreadnought could muster for all purposes...
...about the 4,500,000 man-days in her making and the 1,100 miles of blueprint paper in her plans might remember torpedo planes, wonder whether it would not have been more practical to finish Passamaquoddy after all. They had all heard that the plane had made the dreadnought an anachronism, that the carrier was king, that the U.S. had already abandoned or postponed five projected 58,000-ton super-super-battleships. Would the Iowa spend the war ignominiously tied to a dock? Almost certainly...