Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter weighed less than two ounces, but it fell from a bombing plane which carried torpedoes weighing 1,800 lbs. each, and it fell within the vital area of the Miraflores and Pedro Miguel Locks of the Panama Canal. And it fell while the U. S. battle fleet was attempting last week to "destroy" the Canal in the most intricate of war games. The U. S. scouting fleet was trying to defend...
Brilliant were the tactics which allowed Lieut. Carrington to choose the Miraflores-Pedro Miguel letterbox for his correspondence. Off the Pacific entrance of the Canal had maneuvered the two opposing fleets, the attacking Blacks, 99 ships strong, and the defending Blues, with 75 ships. From Hampton Roads was steaming a theoretical supporting fleet ready to go through the Canal to the aid of the Blues. The issue: Could the Blacks bomb the Canal's locks, thus closing navigation before the reinforcements could arrive...
...Panama Canal, last week, the U. S. Battle Fleet held its Winter maneuvers. The grey, lowering ships formed precise patterns on the rolling waters. Blue-coated, brass-buttoned tacticians directed and studied these patterns. Now the vessels drove ahead in files, now they spread out in phalanges. Twenty airplanes were catapulted from the decks, droned ahead to find the "enemy." They returned to report; the patterns were changed. Certain formations meant probable success, others probable disaster. Smoke billowed from funnels, gigantic guns stirred in their turrets, officers peered through their binoculars, made marks on charts, hoisted shining flags and sent...
Issues. All U. S. naval questions tend to revert to a comparison of U. S. naval power with that of Great Britain, whose far-flung navies are by no means melting away, and of Japan, whose late-acquired modernity is no better exemplified than in its mighty war fleet. The Washington Conference of 1921 set the proper ratio of capital ship tonnage for Great Britain, the U. S. and Japan at 5-5-3. The Geneva Conference of 1927 was called to determine whether this ratio could be applied to smaller ships. No results were obtained. Since...
...squatness also creates an air cushion under the plane when she lands, a benefit. To get figures on cost of operation, Mr. Chapman sent his airliner to Philadelphia last week, will send it shortly to Chicago, then to San Francisco. Then he expects to build a fleet of them and set up his own air transport system...