Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March I-Inauguration of full fleet passenger service on New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line...
...hostile airplane squadron took off from a sea carrier ten miles off shore, and moved forward to ravage the U. S. coast, would the responsibility for bringing it down fall to the Navy's fleet or to the Army's Coast Artillery Corps? Long have the two services wrangled in stuffy professionalism over this point, each claiming the sole privilege of repulsing such an aerial invasion. Quietly, almost casually, the Army last week won a victory over the Navy when, after months of conferences between Army and Navy Boards and a joint Congressional Committee, General Charles Pelot Summerall...
...when U. S. inventor John P. Holland followed the research of countless other experimenters and built the first practicable modern submarine, submarines and submarine-warfare have been an important international problem. Last week U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, representing the country which owns the greatest fleet of effective submarines in commission (76), the country most opposed to their use, led the conference's half-hearted attempt to abolish them. Said...
...Tardieu demanded for France a total of 725.000 tons by 1937 in order to give her absolute parity with Italy in the Mediterranean, and to offset the 144,000 tons allowed Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. This program, if built, would give France not only the largest submarine fleet in the world, but a total naval ratio of 3-3-2 with Britain and the U. S. Observers were aghast, saw the possibility that instead of reducing armaments, Britain and the U. S. might have to indulge in a billion dollars worth of naval ship building. Admirals and statesmen...
...this represent the British fleet," said he, pushing forward a whiskey bottle that was in front of him, "and this," placing beside it a soda siphon, "the American fleet. I really beg your pardon, gentlemen, I had no intention of referring to Prohibition. I had no thought of the contents of the bottles when I began the demonstration...