Word: faste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the U. S. has a relatively small and slow merchant marine, Navy officials have brooded long over the problem presented by Great Britain's large and fast merchant marine, equipped with many liners such as the Mauretania, which could be transformed into light fighting units by the mere mounting of guns. Citizens of the U. S. have been made aware of this problem through statements released by U. S. experts at the now defunct Naval Limitations Parley (see p. 10), and therefore the Navy Department was able to arouse unusual interest last week by announcing new plans...
...other hand, if it be postulated that the navy with the greatest "sea patrol strength" in small fast ships is the "most threatening," then the British plan may be adjudged the more threatening...
...Professor D. S. Tucker, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said people were not moving from farm to city fast enough. He indicated that the sooner the inefficient farmers leave their land to the efficient the better it would be for the national breadbasket...
...will feed the cats on rats and will start a rat ranch adjoining the cat ranch. The rats will multiply four times as fast as the cats, and if we start with 100,000 rats we will have four rats a day for each cat, which is plenty...
...night, bellowed with joy. They drove each other back and forth around their brightly lighted enclosure, grunting, snuffling for breath, dripping sweat and blood. Several million people, listening to an excited radio announcer at the ringside, rocked with excitement. It was, said the announcer, a furious fight, fast and even...