Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While last week the Navy Department considered plans for building up the U. S. fleet to the terms of the London Naval Treaty, the Bureau of Navigation pleaded for officers to staff the ships already in existence. There were 718 Congressional appointments to the Naval Academy going begging last week. Moreover, officer resig- nations in 1929 totaled 309, of which 219 were junior officers; 77 have resigned thus far this year...
...Federal funds to build land planes and operate them from land bases. The Navy insisted that, for tactical reasons, it needed a land-based force for sea patrol. The rivalry reached a climax in the Canal Zone and at Hawaii where each service maintains a large air fleet almost identical in character if not in purpose...
...hereafter the Army air service shall control all aerial operations from land bases and Navy aviation shall have control of all aerial operations attached to a fleet, including shore stations whose maintenance is necessary for operations connected with the fleet...
...strength began agitating for a change. The Army's patent purpose was to get for itself the money the Navy was spending on land planes and land bases at Hampton Roads, San Diego, Pearl Harbor and Panama Canal Zone by showing that their operation was not necessary to the fleet...
...agreed that battleships should be able to pass underneath. Chief points conceded in the compromise were: 1) by San Francisco, desire to have the bridge connect with Alameda; 2) by the Navy Department, fear that a possible enemy air force might bomb the bridge, bottle up a U. S. fleet in the Bay. Last week the War Department approved plans for another, 8,500 ft. bridge, with the longest single span in the world, to cross the famed Golden Gate from Fort Point in the Presidio of San Francisco to Lime Point on the Marin side...