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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cruiser. With a great splash the U. S. S. Chester, flagship of the "treaty cruiser" fleet, took the water from the ways of the New York Shipbuilding Co. at South Camden, N. J. Third to be launched of the eight 10,000-ton cruisers authorized in 1924 (the first two: Salt Lake City, Pensacola), the Chester set a record for laying-launching time-one year, 59 days. Scheduled for completion by June 1, 1930, she typifies the long-range U. S. fighting craft which is most objectionable to Great Britain...
...Tank. The Army sent a wicked-looking military contraption charging over a rough Maryland field and among sand dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
Purpose: Economy, easier handling, prevention of counterfeiting. The Treasury's annual savings: $552,520 on paper, $120,000 on ink, $1,000,000 on labor. Average span of life of old-sized bill: eight months. The Treasury's expectation for the new bill: twelve months or more. Cost of producing each bill 7/10?. Time of production: 30 days. The first set of new bills went to Secretary Mellon. To the Clerk of the House of Representatives were sent 435 new $1 bills, one for each Congressman (in exchange...
...paper money has been issued in eight different sizes. Before the Civil War these issues were only temporary, to bridge the Government over an emergency. The first non-interest-bearing notes for popular circulation came in 1861. Special issues occurred during the Civil War and in 1879 when specie payments were resumed. The sizes...
...pastor of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. About Pittsburgh he learned while collaborating with Bishop Francis John McConnell on the Steel Report Committee of the Interchurch World Movement in 1912, a committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers' workday cut from twelve hours to eight. During the War he served with the Y. M. C. A. at the front, still suffers occasionally from a gassing there received. Lately he was elected President of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America...